From left: British High Commissioner to Jamaica Judith Slater joins Carla Myrie, executive director of Hope Royal Botanical Gardens, and Imega Breese McNab, the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) executive director, in planting a bougainvillea seedling at the Hope Gardens last Thursday. Looking on is Piotr Byczkowski, chargé d’affaires of the European Union in Jamaica.
Eleanor Jones (left), chair of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica’s (PSOJ) Energy, Environment and Climate Change Committee; members of the JPS team; and Dr Parris Lyew-Ayee (right, foreground), PSOJ vice-president join tree-planting efforts at the Hope Royal Botanical Gardens last Thursday. The effort was part of the PSOJ’s ongoing tree-planting initiative to support the national target of three million trees, done in partnership with private-sector stakeholders and members of the diplomatic corps.