The Equinor South Riding Point facility.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS The corporate leadership of EQUINOR SOUTH RIDING POINT in The Bahamas recently paid a courtesy call upon Attorney General Carl Bethel and Minister of the Environment and Housing Romauld Ferriera, at the Office of the Attorney General.
The team from Equinor presented a video overview of the impact of Hurricane Dorian’s sustained winds of more than 200 miles per hour, over the period of two days in September 2019, upon the oil storage and transshipment facilities and surrounding forestry in the area of South Riding Point, Grand Bahama.
Equinor said that since that calamitous time, with the investment of more than $200 million and the training and employment of 250 Grand Bahama residents to conduct environmental cleanup and remediation at the facility and also in the surrounding forestry land, over the past year, there has been almost complete rehabilitation of such land and forestry.
Attorney General Carl Bethel. (FILE PHOTO)
NASSAU, BAHAMAS Attorney General Carl Bethel said yesterday draftspersons are in possession of marijuana legislation from around the region that could guide The Bahamas’ legislative framework on regulated growing and use of medicinal cannabis.
Responding to questions from
Eyewitness News on the status of the legislation, Bethel said: “It is not ready. I have obtained some precedents from other jurisdictions, which have been sent to the draftspeople; some copies of legislation from other jurisdictions, which in one case I forwarded to the draftspersons.”
When asked if the Jamaican model was a front-runner, Bethel chuckled, but did not confirm which model was forwarded.
For example, there were six cases on Sunday; 11 new cases on Saturday; 27 last Friday; 21 last Thursday; and nine last Wednesday.
Of those 74 new infections since last Wednesday, 62 or 83 percent were confirmed on New Providence, eight on Grand Bahama, two on Abaco, one on Eleuthera and one on Andros.
On the recent uptick in cases, the attorney general said: “So long as they are properly contact traced then, you know, limit this issue of community spread.
“So, you may end up having a spike, but if you properly contact trace everybody, you greatly reduce community spread.
“That’s the real danger with this disease; when it’s spreading unobserved throughout the community and hits you with a wallop.”
Travel ban to be lifted on March 8
NASSAU, BAHAMAS Attorney General Carl Bethel explained yesterday that the government’s decision to block travelers from Haiti for the next three weeks was to mitigate the risk of a surge of COVID-19 cases in The Bahamas as Haitians celebrate carnival.
The Bahamas has direct flights to Haiti.
In an amendment to the emergency orders, entry into The Bahamas from Haiti via direct or indirect transport traveling through another country will be prohibited for 21 days beginning at 12.01am on Monday, February 15.
When contacted, Bethel said: “As I understand it, it has to do with the carnival season that is starting in Haiti.
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