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Chairman of environmental agency resigns amid controversial oil spill deal

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Weldon Maddan

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov. 30   – The Chairman of the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA)    Weldon Maddan has resigned following the agency’s controversial decision to drop criminal charges against a company – Trade Winds Citrus, that was reportedly responsible for an oil spill in a river located in the central parish of St Catherine last year.

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