BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC - A conference examining the impact of ozone depleting substances (ODS) on the environment began here Monday with Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas urging regional countries to adequately educate their populations on the issue.
“The challenges are endless, but there are solutions to every challenge and that is why we are gathered here today,” he told the Regional Network Meeting of Ozone Officers from the English speaking Caribbean and Haiti organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the St. Kitts and Nevis Ministry of Sustainable Development.
He told the delegates from Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago that even after an appliance has been carefully and prudently purchased, as well as maintained and repaired under the most stringent of conditions, there is the matter of proper disposal.