The Department of Waste Management is advising the community that their Pockwood Pond Incinerator facility is opened to the public daily from 6:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

A team from the Environmental Health Division will be carrying out mosquito control measures on Jost Van Dyke on Tuesday, May 22.

The team at the Environmental Health Division is featured as they engaged the community in a variety of activities to commemorate Mosquito Awareness Week held from May 7 to 11. 

New and renewing food handlers on Tortola and Virgin Gorda are notified of the following Food Handlers Clinics scheduled for the month of April. 

New and renewing food handlers on Tortola and Virgin Gorda are reminded of the Food Handlers Clinics scheduled for the month of March.

Chief Environmental Health Officer, Mr. Lionel Michael has said that the Environmental Health Division is on a mission to protect residents and visitors to the BVI from food borne illnesses through its food handler’s training programme.

New and renewing food handlers on Tortola are notified that a Food Handlers Clinic is scheduled for March 1 at Nature’s Way located in Fat Hogs Bay beginning at 8:30 a.m.

Chief Environmental Health Officer, Mr. Lionel Michael is appealing to residents to refrain from backyard burning because of the environmental and personal health impact on the community. 

The public is advised that the Public Health Unit, the Environmental Health Division and the Department of Waste Management are re-locating to the first floor of the Road Town Senior’s Building, next door to the Red Cross Building in Tortola.

Fogging will continue in the Road Town area beginning Thursday February 8 between 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.