A green Paper on Jamaica’s forestry indicates that the state-run Forestry Department is considering offering the private sector carbon offsets in exchange for their support of a national initiative to improve forest reserves.

Water has begun flooding into an expanded section of the Panama Canal as engineers begin testing new locks. It’s a key step in a project that will affect trade across the world. Officials overseeing the multibillion-dollar canal expansion project say they began testing new locks on the Atlantic coast Thursday. Workers will spend the next…