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#TurksandCaicos, February 20, 2023 – After a day of protest on Wednesday, employees from Parrot Cay were left puttering off to work once again at the end of last week in a tiny uncovered white boat becoming slowly waterlogged in the early morning rain.
We saw photos of over a dozen residents waiting to be picked up and ferried across the channel. The residents say dredging needs to be done so bigger boats can pass.
Not only is the journey dangerous with the risk of hitting sand bars heightened, but residents say it is putting their jobs in jeopardy. The stranded ferry time cuts into their work hours, which means less take-home pay in an season burdened by historically high inflation.
Arlington Musgrove, Middle and North Caicos MP and Minister of Immigration told us it is Parrot Cay’s responsibility to take their staff to work and there was more than one option for travel.
“Parrot Cay has a responsibility to get their staff to work. That place in Sandy Point is a private marina and so is Parrot Cay. Parrot Cay can move their people from Belfield Landing which is a government port and it is not our responsibility to keep Parrot Cay Port or North Caicos Yacht Club marina cleared.”
It is the latest in a string of statements from the Member of Parliament, who had addressed the protestors’ concerns with responses since mid-week last week to Magnetic Media on the matter. Minister Musgrove, who was at the time in Nassau attending the CARICOM 44th Regular Meeting of Caribbean Heads of Government on Wednesday February 15 explained the government had refused approval to dredge the channel between Parrot Cay and North Caicos.
“The passage between North Caicos and Parrot Cay has been a problem for years. It’s a continuous dredging exercise that Parrot Cay is supposed to do in getting their staff over. Parrot Cay did send a letter over a few weeks ago asking for permission to dredge and keep the sand. But as you know, that’s not how our procurement process works.”
Fears for their safety on their daily sojourns to work drove North Caicos residents to take protest action – they were captured in photos and on video vocalising the dire need for “dredging to make passage safe”.
A boat was filmed in the distance, said to be stuck on a sandbar.
The Protesters, many of whom travel between North Caicos and Parrot Cay in order to get to work, say they are at risk using the shallow passage and are demanding that the Government start the dredging process to make the area appropriate for boat travel.
Musgrove said while Parrot Cat did not get permission to dredge and keep the sand their hands were not completely tied.
“In any event we gave them permission to do the emergency dredging. This will allow my people from North and Middle Caicos to cross the channel in a safe and efficient way.”
One resident shared their own experience with the passage.
“For years many have said that the passage is too shallow for boats to pass, which I can personally contest on my own experience while traveling with friends on a boat there, unfortunately we ended up hitting a sand bay and were stuck there until help arrived, and even then we all had to jump out of the boat to do so, luckily no one was hurt and the boat wasn’t damaged, but it could have easily happened.”
At this point, the work is stalled, with neither the Government or Parrot Cay taking on the necessary dredging.
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#Kingston, February 20, 2023 – In the age of technology and innovation, the Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry is on a mission to revolutionise the sector through efficiency and sustainability and change the way Jamaicans view and approach farming.
Against this background, the Ministry’s latest investment, through the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), entails the procurement of two Agri-Spray Drones to provide much-needed relief to farmers in irrigating their crops, which underscores the ‘Grow Smart, Eat Smart’ mantra.
Drone Manager/Senior Programmer at RADA, Hartnell Campbell, was part of a major tour of onion farms in St. Thomas on February 16, where a demonstration of one of the drones was facilitated.
The massive equipment was used by Environmental Solutions Limited to spray an approximately one-acre plot on the Careeras farm in Yallahs.
Mr. Campbell believes drone technology will greatly aid in achieving the principle of precision agriculture.
“When it comes to precision agriculture, we’re talking about knowing exactly where you have problems on the farm and then addressing just that problem alone,” he explains.
Mr. Campbell informs that the multi-spectral camera on the drone can detect issues more accurately and “[much] greater than our eyes”.
“So you would fly this over your farm, map the entire area so it can give you the actual acreage; but you will also know what is happening,” he adds, while highlighting the wide-ranging surveillance and mapping benefits to be derived from using drones.
“When we are looking at a plant and we see green, it is actually the greenlight that bounces from the plants to our eyes. This piece of machinery will actually see when that green is going away, turning brown and the plant is dying, for some reason,” Mr. Campbell outlines.
He emphasises that sprayer drones can save the farmers unnecessary expenses by preventing chemical wastage.
Mr. Campbell further informs that the equipment can spray one acre of land in 20 minutes, thus eliminating the tedious and burdensome task of farmers having to load sprayers, weighing up to 30lbs., on their backs to undertake this task on their properties.
Moreover, fruits grown at higher altitudes are more difficult to spray by human effort, while the sprayer drone makes this a simple task.
Meanwhile, RADA’s 257,000 registered farmers are being encouraged to form groups and make requests for drone services through the mobile app or by contacting their extension officers.
“We’re talking about growing smart and eating smart. That is our mantra for the Ministry right now. So, drone technology is a technology that we want farmers to adopt,” Mr. Campbell underscores.
#TurksandCaicos, February 20, 2023 – Ministry of Health and Human Services has partnered with the Diabetic Association to deliver Podiatry Services. The Ministry of Health through its Primary Health Care Department recently collaborated with the Diabetic Association in conducting Free Podiatry Clinics across the islands between January 10th – 17th, 2023.
Visiting Podiatrist, Dr. Rodney Kander, accompanied by his wife Mrs. Iris Kander, returned to the islands with eagerness to provide exceptional Podiatry care to a variety of patients. he ultimate goal of the Ministry of Health is to provide Podiatric treatment that could support value-based care by improving chronic care management, boosting patient health outcomes, and decreasing healthcare costs.
Podiatrists are health professionals who treat the foot, ankle, and related structures of the leg. They help people deal with a range of mobility issues, relieve pain and treat infections of the feet and lower legs. Podiatrists assist patients with a variety of different issues including:
Dr. Kander saw a total of 136 patients island wide with clinics being fully booked. Dr. Kander is expected to return to the islands again in April 2023 to offer more podiatry care.
Dr. Kander is grateful to the entire Primary Health Care staff, Dr. Marcela Malcolm of Carolina Medical and the TCI Diabetic Association for all their efforts. The Ministry of Health is grateful for the invaluable partnership and looks forward to continuing to work together to promote health and wellness in our population by providing access to care and services.
For additional information, please contact; Mrs. Lakeisha Wilson, Nutritionist at (649)-338-5470.
February 20, 2023 – Science has proven that too much screen time can damage your kids’ brains.
Experts say, to read to them and with them instead. From the ages of 1 to 5, your child’s brain is developing and reading has a positive effect on that development.
The American Academy of Pediatrics says: “Reading regularly with young children stimulates optimal patterns of brain development and strengthens parent-child relationships at a critical time in child development, which, in turn, builds language, literacy, and social-emotional skills that last a lifetime.”
Reading to your children provides them with exposure, exposure to language that they need to support brain development. Allowing your children to read on their own stimulates their brains in the areas of speech, vision and more.
In addition, reading has been proven to decrease stress, slow the progression of some mental illnesses including anxiety and even heighten life expectancy.
One of the easiest ways to incorporate reading even before your child can recognize the words is by reading them a bedtime story. Make it part of the routine and soon they’ll likely start asking for stories without being prompted.
Take them to the library and allow them to pick their own books, making it an adventure that they’ll want to participate in.
Children are naturally curious, and they love stories once you get them interested, so take some time to help develop your child’s brain today!
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