The Environmental Management Authority (EMA) is to establish an office in Tobago to deal with issues exclusively relating to the island. This was revealed during a one-hour meeting with the Tobago House of Assembly’s Chief Secretary, Orville London and EMA Chairman, Dr Allan Bachan, last Monday (20th Oct) The EMA

The THA Division of Agriculture, Marine Affairs, Marketing and the Environment is embarking on a Farm Animal Recording System, where a micro-chip will be implanted in livestock to provide a greater degree of traceability for disease surveillance and monitoring, as well as in instances where animals are stolen. Secretary of

The island’s seventh Youth Zone (Y Zone) was set up in Mason Hall this week. The spaces have been part of the Division of Community Development and Culture’s continued youth development thrust. A number of training programmes are available at the Y Zones including the IBG Phoenix Program and Rosetta

Tobago has begun its preparation in the event that the deadly Ebola disease makes it to these shores. A critical team met on Thursday (16th October 2014) to start preparation in Tobago for a possible outbreak of Ebola currently affecting countries in West Africa. The two-hour meeting which was chaired

Earth Science Week encourages the understanding and promotion of earth science. A series of educational programmes are being held in Tobago to engage students and others in discovering the earth sciences, deepening their understanding of the interactions of earth’s systems. Earth science or Geoscience is an all-embracing term referring to

The Unemployment Relief Programme (URP) will resume on Wednesday (15th October 2014) following a one month suspension, Assemblyman Handel Beckles, Assistant Secretary in the Division of Infrastructure and Public Utilities has disclosed. He said the programme along with the Development Programme will involve 28 projects which were on hold across