The public is advised that due to recent rains and the resulting production of pest mosquitoes, the Department of Environmental Health Services (Vector Control) is conducting fogging exercise throughout New Providence and in the Family Islands, where necessary.

Weather permitting, the times of application will be between the hours of 6:30 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. Owners of bee hives are asked to secure them at this time.

The public is further warned that disease-causing mosquitoes can develop in any man-made container such as drums, buckets, water tanks, cisterns, cans, tyres, flower vases, unmaintained water fountains, discarded appliances, water closet tank in use and undisturbed for a while and discarded ones. Also plants such as bromeliads are breeding sources for mosquitoes.

The Department of Environmental Health Services strongly advises that a complete and thorough weekly check be made of your premises to ensure that all containers are tipped over, turned down, stored, or managed in ways to avoid collection of water, and properly disposed of at the New Providence Sanitary Landfill off Tonique Williams Darling Highway, or at the various designated disposal sites in the Family Islands.

The department thanks the public for their full cooperation