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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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by Joey Waldinger
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 …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
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 …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
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 …

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by Dana Kampa
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 …

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by GENEVIEVE GLATSKY
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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by Amanda Ulrich
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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by Amanda Ulrich
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 …

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by Amanda Ulrich
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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by Amanda Ulrich
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 …

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by Amanda Ulrich
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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by Amanda Ulrich

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