Malone grilled on pollution scrubber
The Pockwood Pond incinerator is back burning trash after six weeks offline, but Health and Social Development Minister Carvin Malone came under fire in the House of Assembly last week …
Wisps of white smoke carry over the grounds of the Pockwood Pond incinerator last week, where black clouds poured out the day prior from a fire. (File photo: DANA KAMPA)
The Pockwood Pond incinerator is back burning trash after six weeks offline, but Health and Social Development Minister Carvin Malone came under fire in the House of Assembly last week for longstanding delays in obtaining a pollution-control scrubber for the facility from a company in the United States.
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Incinerator back up after weeks offline
The Pockwood Pond incinerator is burning trash again after being offline for about six weeks, during which residents complained frequently about the fires and smoke from the landfill behind the …
Smoke drifted past the incinerator in Pockwood Pond on April 6 before the facility was repaired this week. Now it is working to process a backlog of trash, some of which is piled behind the incinerator building, above. (Photo: DANA KAMPA)
The Pockwood Pond incinerator is burning trash again after being offline for about six weeks, during which residents complained frequently about the fires and smoke from the landfill behind the facility.
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As curfew ends and seaports reopen, Premier eyes full June reopening
After cases of Covid-19 recently spiked to their highest level in months before again receding to 10 as of yesterday,Virgin Islands leaders are forging ahead with plans to ease restrictions …
As government officials encourage residents to get vaccinated, known active Covid-19 cases dropped yesterday to 10, and Premier Andrew Fahie has set his sights on fully reopening the territory in June. Above, people queue up for the vaccine in front of Rite Way Food Market in Pasea. (Photo: PROVIDED)
After cases of Covid-19 recently spiked to their highest level in months before again receding to 10 as of yesterday,Virgin Islands leaders are forging ahead with plans to ease restrictions and reboot the tourism economy.Â
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DDM partners with US recovery firm
A âresiliency summitâ was held last week on Buck Island as part of a new memorandum of understanding between the Department of Disaster Management and the United States-based emergency management …
Government officials and other stakeholders meet last Thursday during a resiliency summit on Buck Island hosted by the United States-based emergency management firm Aerial Recovery Group, which is headed by real estate developer Britnie Turner, who is seated at centre left in the above photo. (Photo: ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED)
A âresiliency summitâ was held last week on Buck Island as part of a new memorandum of understanding between the Department of Disaster Management and the United States-based emergency management firm Aerial Recovery Group.