Water, Environment and Climate Change Minister Matthew Samuda speaking at last week’s Jamaica Observer Monday Exchange at the newspaper’s Beechwood Avenue headquarters in St Andrew.Photo: Karl Mclarty
MINISTER of Water, Environment, and Climate Change Matthew Samuda has scoffed at critics who claim the Andrew Holness-led Administration is not doing enough to protect Jamaica’s environment.
According to Samuda, much of the local criticism has been uninformed and unfair, based on the measures implemented by the Government over the past 10 years.
“To those seeking to be a hero for the environment I just want to tell them that, ‘You don’t need to create a villain for you to be a hero,’ ” declared Samuda at the latest Jamaica Observer Monday Exchange last week.
Samuda, who was recently elected to head the 193-member United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) — the world’s highest-level decision-making body for matters related to the environment — told Observer editors and reporters that the international community seems more attuned to the work of the Jamaican Government than many at home.
“You usually say, ‘Dance a yard before you dance abroad,’ but in our
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