The eruption of the Soufriere volcano just over a month ago, awakened a renewed interest in traditional water sources such as springs and wells. [caption id=
Left to right Conroy Toney, Egbert Thomas and Verrol Ince. Social Share
The government has given the all-clear for persons in the Soufriere orange zone up to Petit Bordel on the Leeward side and Mt Young on the Windward side to return home.
But, this decision is generating mixed feelings among evacuees.
Some have said they cannot wait to return home; while others are saying they feel as if they were being forced out of the emergency shelters to homes that are not yet liveable.
“Give me a shovel and a wheel barrow,” a woman at the Kingstown Preparatory School (KPS) shelter told SEARCHLIGHT said on Thursday.
THE CARIBBEAN Disaster Management Agency (CDEMA) thinks the situation in which the eruption of the Soufriere volcano has placed St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is far from over. Superintendent Sylvan McIntyre, a member of the CARICOM Operational Support Team (COST) of CDEMA made the pronouncement on episode 59 of Round Table Talk on VC3 on May 12. He said currently, there are threats existing in the red and orange …
Efforts to rehabilitate farmers and fisherfolk from the Red and Orange zones in the wake of the explosive eruptions of La Soufriere received a boost on Wednesday, May 19 when a cheque of $50,000 was handed over on behalf of the regional partners of Grant Thornton to the National Development Foundation of St Vincent and the Grenadines (NDF). The cheque, which was received by Hermia Neehall and Roger Clifton of …
Eliminating the Threat of Food Insecurity
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If ever there was a time for countries of the Caribbean under the umbrella body of CARICOM, to prepare a foundation for a new agriculture paradigm for the region, it is now.
Events unfolding all around us show that food insecurity may very well be staring several citizens of the region in the face, and could get worse if regional governments delay action on that threat.
Using a series of multilevel linear probability models, the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations found that the five characteristics associated with the largest increase in the likelihood of experiencing food insecurity around the world are: having low levels of education, weak social networks, less social capital, low household income, and being unemployed.