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Remote Sensing Workshop
June 10, 2010
Remote Sensing Workshop
Ms. Carolann Albury, Director of The Bahamas National Geographic Information Systems (BNGIS) Centre was pleased to announce the hosting of the first of its kind Remote Sensing Workshop, Satellite and Radar Imagery Applications for Hazards Mitigation for executives and technical officers
Controlling Pests
June 17, 2010
Controlling Pests
The rainy season is upon us again, bringing with it challenges of more pest control issues and contributing to off scheduled services such as garbage collection. Together with the warm summer temperatures, pests such as flies, mosquitoes and rats are likely to produce in larger numbers. However property owners and occupants of premises can do their part by ensuring that their garbage is properly c...
June 25, 2010
BNGIS centre reports on a successful remote sensing workshop
On June 7, 2010 an Executive Session meeting was held at the Police Conference Center in East Street, Nassau , Bahamas to launch a week-long training course on remote sensing imagery for hazards. The objective was to initiate the first-ever disaster preparedness Workshop with the Government of The Bahamas
Pesticide threat looms over French West Indies
July 13, 2010
Pesticide threat looms over French West Indies
France is once again embroiled in a health and safety scandal. For 20 years, from 1973 to 1993, the insecticide chlordecone (Kepone) was used in Martinique and Guadeloupe, in the French West Indies, to combat banana weevil, exposing a significant proportion of the population and polluting the soil.
A study published last month in the Journal of Clinical Oncology and in Guadeloupe confirms that ...
Budget cuts possible problem with garbage collection
August 11, 2010
Budget cuts possible problem with garbage collection
By AVA TURNQUEST
Tribune Staff Reporter
aturnquest@tribunemedia.net
IRREGULAR and inadequate waste collection in Nassau could be the trickle-down effect of budget cuts in the Department of Environmental Health, claims a union chief.
Funding allotted for overtime was cut in this year's budget, and some sanitation workers allege this decision has negatively impacted collection efforts.
For the ...
Labour issues being blamed for garbage problems
August 15, 2010
Labour issues being blamed for garbage problems
By AVA TURNQUEST
Tribune Staff Reporter
aturnquest@tribunemedia.net
LABOUR issues at the Department of Environmental Health Service are being blamed for the continuing discord over waste collection in Nassau, it was revealed yesterday.
In response to concerns published in The Tribune last week, Environment Minister Earl Deveaux attributed the problems experienced to "supply chain management, s...
September 16, 2010
Call for govt investigation over worker's 'severe illness'
By DENISE MAYCOCK
Tribune Freeport Reporter
dmaycock@tribunemedia.net
FREEPORT - The government is being called on to investigate operations at Bradford Marine after an employee was reportedly diagnosed with a severe, possibly life-threatening respiratory illness that is believed to be commonly associated with sandblasting.
The activist group Families For Justice is concerned that the health o...
Ministry of Health - Dengue Fever
September 24, 2010
Ministry of Health - Dengue Fever
There has been significant increase in dengue activity throughout the Caribbean region and the Region of the Americas with outbreaks reported from Barbados, Grenada, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the French Territories.
September 23, 2010
Workers allowed to go home after air conditioning problems
By ALISON LOWE
Tribune Staff Reporter
alowe@tribunemedia.net
A GROUP of Environmental Health Services workers were told they could go home yesterday after complaints that temperatures in their office sky-rocketed due to a broken air conditioning system.
Director of the Department, Melanie McKenzie, said that "10 to 15" employees were allowed to leave in the mid-afternoon. A worker pegged the fi...
October 01, 2010
Volunteers clear 39 tons of trash from South Beach for Coastal Cleanup Day 2010
A record number of volunteers from all walks of life throughout The Bahamas turned out to participate in the 25th Anniversary of International Coastal Cleanup.
To date, this global initiative has helped remove over 100 million pounds of marine litter from over 170, 000 miles of coasts since it began 25 years ago.
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