The Unit­ed Na­tions En­vi­ron­ment Pro­gramme (UN­EP), Fri­day urged Ja­maica to rat­i­fy the Carta­ge­na Con­ven­tion SPAW Pro­to­col, which it de­scribes as the on­ly re­gion­al le­gal agree­ment for the pro­tec­tion of the Caribbean Sea.

In a mes­sage con­grat­u­lat­ing Ja­maica on its Na­tion­al Labour Day, UN­EP, notes that the ac­tiv­i­ties are be­ing held un­der the theme “Pro­tect the En­vi­ron­ment: Our Land, Our Du­ty, Our Fu­ture,”  and that it has the en­vi­ron­ment as its ma­jor fo­cus.

UN­EP is the world’s lead­ing voice on the en­vi­ron­ment. It pro­vides lead­er­ship and fos­ters part­ner­ship in car­ing for the en­vi­ron­ment by in­spir­ing, in­form­ing, and en­abling na­tions and peo­ples to im­prove their qual­i­ty of life with­out com­pro­mis­ing that of fu­ture gen­er­a­tions.