On Sunday afternoon, 42 people young and old arrived at Green VI’s EcoPark in Tortola for the second “No Dig Farming and Composting” workshop presented by English agricultural educator Charles …
February 9, 2025
December 1, 2023
Incinerator gets parts, but others still needed
As waste crises plague the territory’s two most populated islands, government is working to complete long-delayed repairs to the Tortola incinerator and to bring Virgin Gorda a safer landfill, according …
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April 21, 2022
RDA and government float new waste management strategies
After a February fire shuttered the Pockwood Pond incinerator and again thrust the territory’s waste management problems into the spotlight, government and Recovery and Development Agency officials hosted a meeting …
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May 12, 2021
New waste strategy rehashes old goals
In 2013 the government adopted a comprehensive strategy to overhaul the territory’s waste management system from the ground up. Most of its plans were not accomplished, but now leaders are …
June 30, 2020
National trash plan in the works
As both house-to-house and communal-bin garbage collection continue, plans to launch a national waste management programme are resuming after being delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic, Health and Social Development Minister …
May 2, 2020
Recycling efforts redouble post lockdown
Throughout the lockdown, government ministers repeatedly encouraged residents to rinse, separate and store their recyclable items so they could be collected and processed once the curfew was lifted. The curfew …
April 25, 2019
Government plans recycling system
Health and Social Development Minister Carvin Malone signed a memorandum of understanding with the non-profit organisation Green VI to implement a territory-wide recycling system, according to a press release issued …
February 18, 2019
Skelton looks to chart new path with PVIM
The Progressive Virgin Islands Movement was born late last year when legislators Ronnie Skelton and Mitch Turnbull publicly broke rank with the governing National Democratic Party, which Mr. Skelton helped …
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September 7, 2018
‘We’ve got to do better than this:’ Residents speak out about trash fires
More than 40 residents showed up to a community meeting hosted by government on Tuesday night to voice their worry and anger about a string of recent dumpsite fires. The …
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August 30, 2018
Three islands, three trash fires
On Tuesday night of last week, a fire started at the temporary dumpsite on Jost Van Dyke, burning bright enough that some residents said they could see the blaze from …
August 20, 2018
As RDA contractors clean up VI, Kausina takes a back seat
The Recovery and Development Agency has begun work on its first official order of business: getting rid of hurricane debris that has littered the Virgin Islands for almost a year. …
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June 25, 2018
Seven years later, where’s the scrubber?
Though the dumpsite fire in Coxheath has become the main air quality concern for residents over the past two months, the Pockwood Pond incinerator has been spewing largely unfiltered gas …
June 15, 2018
Waste removal delayed at Coxheath dumpsite
The first barge scheduled to export hurricane debris off Tortola and away from the Coxheath dumpsite has been delayed. Department of Waste Management Manager Greg Massicote said that although the …
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