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Red zone still restricted even with lower alert level
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While the go ahead has been given to residents of communities in the Orange zone to return home, access to the Red zone remains restricted due to the dangerous threat of lahars.
Because this threat may continue for some time, scientists have advised that certain measures be put in place to safeguard lives, livelihoods and property of persons who occupy the Red zone.
“The best protection is to stay out of the valleys, don’t put any kind of major assets in it because of the fact that, in the case of St Vincent, it’s going to happen so fast that it’s difficult to provide a warning,” geologist, Professor Richard Robertson said on Wednesday during VC3’s Round Table Talk programme.
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Geologist and lead scientist, Professor Richard Robertson (left) and volcano-seismologist, Roderick Stewart at the Belmont Observatory. (Searchlight Newspaper) Social Share
Kingstown – The government has moved the alert at the La Soufriere volcano from Red, the highest, to Orange, the third-highest on the four-level scale.
Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves said on the state-owned NBC Radio on Thursday that the Cabinet made the decision a day earlier.
The alert level was raised to Red on April 8 when the evacuation order was given, about 15 hours before La Soufriere erupted explosively on April 9.
A Red alert means that an eruption is in progress or may occur without further warning.
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Customs and Excise Department not seizing canned foods – PM Social Share
Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has described as political mischief, information in the public domain stating that the Customs and Excise Department was seizing imported canned meats and fish products from barrels.
Last weekend, social media was ablaze with questions relating to seizures of the above mentioned goods after a news item aired on local television last Friday, April 30.
In the piece, the presenter read that Dr Gonsalves had said that containers coming into the country with canned foods such as tuna, corned beef, sardine and sausages will be seized or confiscated at the port so that they can be tested under the Public Health Act.