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Future Centre Trust Raises Alarm About ZIKA and ILLEGAL DUMPING

Prepared by Dr Tara A. Inniss, PhD (UWI) MSD (UNSW) BA (York) Environmental NGO, the Future Centre Trust (FCT) is concerned about the number of reports of littering and illegal dumping in Barbados. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has warned regional Governments about the threat the most recent mosquito-borne infection, the Zika Virus poses…

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Prepared by Dr Tara A. Inniss, PhD (UWI) MSD (UNSW) BA (York)

futuretrustEnvironmental NGO, the Future Centre Trust (FCT) is concerned about the number of reports of littering and illegal dumping in Barbados. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has warned regional Governments about the threat the most recent mosquito-borne infection, the Zika Virus poses to the region. Vector-borne illnesses, such as the Zika virus, can have potentially serious health implications for Barbadians and visitors, especially pregnant women. With a number of travel advisories in place, it is also likely to have a negative impact the island’s fragile tourism-based economy.

The FCT remains vigilant about the incidences of improper waste disposal in the island and illegal dumping, with some areas becoming breeding grounds for mosquitoes and rats.

Last week, FCT volunteers documented over 20 illegal dumpsites in St. Michael alone; mostly in the environmentally sensitive Zone 1 Belle Water Catchment Area as well as the populated corridors of Bridgetown. Using the mobile app Trashout.me, volunteers recorded photos and locations of dumpsites. Volunteers found over 10 large discarded appliances in the Belle and over 40 tyres — all harboring water from recent rains.

The FCT urges waste haulers and their clients to work together to ensure a clean, safe and healthy environment for all Barbadians and visitors. The FCT also asks that residents and businesses play their role in reducing waste, finding ways to reuse items before disposing waste and recycling where available. Householders and business owners should also keep their surroundings clean. The environmental organization is also requesting that persons utilize the Trashout.me app to help the FCT and hopefully, policymakers, to monitor sites and prioritize clean ups.

The FCT believes that it is incumbent on the Government of Barbados to provide adequate, affordable, sustainable community-based solutions for waste disposal including the 3Rs — Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. It also urges Government to increase the monitoring and enforcement of littering and illegal dumping in the island. Current policy direction is proving to be woefully inadequate to deal with the pressures being placed on our economy and environment. Barbados needs an urgent, comprehensive public education programme about safe and sustainable waste disposal.

The Ministries responsible for Health, Environment and Water Resources should re-assess current public health and sanitation policies in the light of recent epidemics and consider how they can work with citizens, the NGO community and the private sector to ensure a clean, healthy, safe environment for all.

73 responses to “Future Centre Trust Raises Alarm About ZIKA and ILLEGAL DUMPING”

  1. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Barbados Fertility Centre
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    We have received lots of calls from patients concerned about Zika virus, so Dr. Juliet Skinner, Head Clinician at BFC has made this video to explain what this virus really means to someone trying to conceive – please feel free to ask any questions, your fertility remains paramount to us –

    https://youtu.be/8dO6h69jf4k

  2. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Bizzy should be appointed Minister of Water Resource. He sure has a knack of making all of the rain fall in his,and his cronies, baskets.

  3. ac Avatar
    ac

    Is it a flip flop or has WHO retracted its earlier warnings of pregnant women travelling to high risked areas affected by Zika mostly those of carribbean region.Most likely based on insubstantial informationwhich goes against the analysis of infected mothers and deformed babies WHO might have made the correct call finally

  4. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/case-zika-virus-acquired-sexual-contact-found-texas-article-1.2517928

    First case of Zika virus transmitted through sexual contact in U.S. confirmed in Texas
    BY RICH SCHAPIRO NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Tuesday, February 2, 2016, 3:48 PM A A A
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    A health technician analyzes a blood sample from a patient bitten by a mosquito at the National Institute of Health in Lima, Peru. The Zika virus has spread “explosively” across the Americas in recent weeks.
    MARIANA BAZO/REUTERS
    A health technician analyzes a blood sample from a patient bitten by a mosquito at the National Institute of Health in Lima, Peru. The Zika virus has spread “explosively” across the Americas in recent weeks.
    The first U.S. case of Zika virus — acquired through sexual contact — has been confirmed in Texas, health officials revealed Tuesday.

    The unidentified patient was infected with the mosquito-borne virus after having sex with a person who contracted Zika while traveling overseas.

    “Now that we know Zika virus can be transmitted through sex, this increases our awareness campaign in educating the public about protecting themselves and others,” Dallas County Health and Human Services director Zachary Thompson said.

    “Next to abstinence, condoms are the best prevention method against any sexually transmitted infections.”

    The alarming development promoted health officials to caution that sexual transmission of Zika is unlikely to be a common occurrence in the U.S.

    ZIKA VIRUS SPREAD DECLARED A GLOBAL EMERGENCY BY WHO

    On Feb. 1, 2016, the World Health Organization declared the rapidly-spreading Zika Virus a global emergency, a usually rare measure that signals just how serious the situation. Here, Director-General of WHO Margaret Chan holds a news conference after the first meeting of the International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee concerning the Zika virus.A health worker fumigates a house as residents wait outside during a campaign against the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases at Carabayllo district on the outskirts of Lima, Peru.Daniele Ferreira dos Santos holds her son Juan Pedro as he undergoes visual exams at the Altino Ventura foundation in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. Santos was never diagnosed with Zika, but she blames the virus for her son’s defect and for the terrible toll it has taken on her life.JAN. 29, 2016 PHOTOVIEW GALLERY
    Fears mount as Zika virus is declared global emergency
    But it wasn’t the first time Zika was spread through sexual contact.

    A researcher from the Centers for Disease Control infected his wife in 2007 after returning from a trip to Senegal.

    Six years later, researchers working to stem an outbreak in French Polynesia isolated the virus in the semen of a patient.

    There remain no documented cases of Zika virus infection by mosquito bite in the U.S.

    The dozens of other people diagnosed in the U.S. contracted the disease while traveling in affected regions in Latin America and the Caribbean.

    A health worker carries out fumigation as part of preventive measures against the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases Tuesday at a local park on the seafront in Panama City.
    CARLOS JASSO/REUTERS
    A health worker carries out fumigation as part of preventive measures against the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases Tuesday at a local park on the seafront in Panama City.
    THREE PEOPLE IN NEW YORK TEST POSITIVE FOR ZIKA VIRUS

    The virus, which has been linked to abnormal brain development in newborns, has spread “explosively” across the Americas in recent weeks.

    The World Health Organization declared an international emergency on Monday.

    The WHO has estimated that there could be up to 4 million cases of Zika in the Americas in the next year.

  5. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    “The most common symptoms of Zika virus infection are mild fever and exanthema (skin rash), usually accompanied by conjunctivitis, muscle or joint pain, and general malaise that begins 2-7 days after the bite of an infected mosquito. One out of four infected people develops symptoms of the disease.”

  6. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    It appears…until proven otherwise, that Zika is only dangerous to pregnant mothers, their unborn children and people with preexisting conditions.

  7. ac Avatar
    ac

    Listen girl child all pregnant woman are at high risk to contagious diseases so what New.

  8. David Avatar
    David

    Zika Hoax: five things that will happen next

    by Jon Rappoport

    February 2, 2016

    (To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Power Outside The Matrix, click here.)

    (Note: all source links for this article can be found at the blog post, here.)

    Microcephaly = babies born with small heads and brain impairment.

    In previous articles, I established that the Zika virus uproar is a hoax.  There was no reason to assume the number of Brazilian cases of microcephaly was extraordinary.  There is no reason to assume the Zika virus has anything to do with microcephaly.

    My previous quote:

    "Now we have a January 27 Associated Press story out of Rio, published in SFGate: ‘270 of 4,180 suspected microcephaly cases confirmed.’  That’s called a clue, in case you’re wondering.  Of the previously touted 4,180 cases of microcephaly in Brazil, the actual number of confirmed cases so far is, well, only 270.  Bang.  But wait, there’s more.  AP: ‘Brazilian officials said the babies with the defect [microcephaly] and their mothers are being tested to see if they had been infected. Six of the 270 confirmed microcephaly cases were found to have the [Zika] virus.’  Bang, bang, bang.  Out of all the microcephaly cases re-examined in Brazil, only six have the Zika virus.  That constitutes zero proof that Zika has anything to do with microcephaly."

    But of course, The Machine is rolling and it will move forward.  Also, a number of independent investigators are behind the curve.  They are still assuming there is proof of a Zika-microcephaly "epidemic."  If there is proof, it is nowhere to be found yet.

    Here are five things that will happen next.

    One: Health agencies and reporters will mention cases of microcephaly in other countries, and they will automatically connect them to the Zika virus, or they will suggest there could be a connection.  This baseless claim is part of the operation to build up the story and spread fear.  Microcephaly can be caused by any insult to the brain during fetal development.  
    Two: There will be more stories about the rush to develop a vaccine against Zika, the virus that hasn’t been proved to cause anything serious.

    Three: Some independent researchers will continue to insist that Zika is actually a weaponized biowar virus.  They will ignore the fact that, as yet, Zika hasn’t been shown to cause microcephaly.  Or they will point to genetically engineered mosquitoes and the Tdap vaccine as the cause of the Zika epidemic—when there is no proof the epidemic exists.  Yes, the vaccine and the mosquitoes are quite dangerous to health, but there is no reason to tout a Zika/microcephaly epidemic when proof isn’t there.   
    Four: The truth here is: absence of evidence.  On the one hand, the CDC and the World Health Organization will grudgingly admit it would be useful to assemble more hard evidence connecting Zika to microcephaly.  On the other hand, they will press forward with emergency warnings to pregnant mothers; travel advisories; and they will emphasize the need to come up with a vaccine.  Then, they’ll forget all about the need for more evidence.

    Five: Investigators and researchers will ignore the fact that there is a very real health crisis in Brazil, and it has existed for a long time.  The rampant use of toxic pesticides, grinding poverty, contaminated water, lack of basic sanitation, overcrowding, the takeover of farm land by major corporations, prior toxic vaccine campaigns—these are all factors that cause massive illness, suffering, and death in Brazil.

    Again, I emphasize: The release of genetically engineered mosquitoes in Brazil, based on no health studies, is a crime, to say the least.  But there is no need to claim these insects are causing an epidemic of microcephaly—since there is no evidence of an epidemic.  There is every reason to oppose this GE mosquito campaign.

    For the past 30 years, I’ve been analyzing and taking apart phony epidemics.  There are two things you must do, among others.  Demand proof that the touted cause is really the cause.  And discover whether the number of ill people is being accurately reported.  
    So far, re microcephaly, there is no proof the touted cause is the cause.  And the recent revision of evidence indicates there are far, far fewer cases of microcephaly in Brazil than initially trumpeted.

    Here is a sixth thing that may happen now.  Those Brazilian researchers who went back in and looked at their own evidence for a second time and found no proof of a microcephaly epidemic and no causal connection to the Zika virus?  The World Health Organization and the CDC could move in and apply some heavy pressure and arming-twisting:

    "Look, boys, you messed up big-time.  We’ve got a raging epidemic here because we say so.  And Zika is the cause because we say so.  Now, you look again and come up with the answer we want.  We’re the pros.  We run the show.  You’re nothing.  If you want future careers, you’ll do the smart thing.  Get it?"

    And then at another level, the US State Department will exert pressure based on aid programs to Brazil.  You want the money to keep flowing?  —You want to reap the rewards you’re getting from Monsanto’s presence in Brazil?  You want our continuing help with security for the Olympics?  Get on the right side of this story.  Get out in front of trouble.  Play ball.

    And then, if the Brazilians fold up and submit and obey, you’ll hear something like this from their now-apologetic researchers:

    "Well, when we looked at those 3000-plus other possible cases of microcephaly for a second time, guess what?  Wow.  We found most of them are, in fact, microcephaly.  And the Zika virus was present in all those cases.  This is really is an epidemic, and it is caused by Zika.  This is a global pandemic.  We fully support the World Health Organization.  We must have a Zika vaccine as soon as possible.  Don’t get pregnant.  Do what you’re told."

    Go along, or tell the truth.  Go along, or tell the truth.

    You can find this article and more at NoMoreFakeNews.com.

  9. ac Avatar
    ac

    Fear is a powerful motivator a reason why people go to Church despite of no evidence of proving a Heaven or Hell beyond the Grave
    People thrive on Fear like spooky things green men living on Mars and flying saucers all have no proof or evidence to support but said long enough People would believe
    The USA govt have remolded the formula of Fear so strong is it strength that intellectual people bow in silence

  10. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    SOUND SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE BY Jon Rappoport
    QUITE UNLIKE TH PANIC BUZZ ON BU

    BUT AS I HAVE SAID BEFORE
    WE DONT NEED ZIKA TO CAUSE MICROCEPHALY IN BARBADOS

    WE HAVE A HIGH INCIDENCE OF IT IN PARLIAMENT AND IN BARBADOS IN GENERAL
    THERE IS ALSO A VERY HIGH INCIDENCE DEMONSTRATED HERE ON BU ON A DAILY BASIS

    BUT I AM NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK THE TRUTH AS I SEE IT

  11. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    “The USA govt have remolded the formula of Fear so strong is it strength that intellectual people bow in silence….”

    Hmmmmmm……. interesting.

    If you believe this to be true, then why do you rush to quote anything from USA sources whenever you think that information is applicable in substantiating your support of DLP policies others may be critical of or oppose?

  12. ac Avatar
    ac

    Sir what kind of a jack a ss question is that. Barbados and the USA are signed onto several treaties one of which include labour law agreements
    Btw what is the Zika virus have to do with the rule of law when there is no supporting evidence substantial enough to verify what WHO states about pregnancy andd its connection to the zika virus
    Sounds like The blp and WHO (in this instance )suffer from the same infection of foot and mouth disease .a terrible fate to overcome

  13. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    WANNA STOP ZIKA? WELL STOP HAVING SEX!
    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/77394/us-zika-virus-transmission-reported-attributed-sex

  14. ac Avatar
    ac

    Why not everything else seems to be on the Zika Menu for one less mouths to feed. Leave it to America they will always find a way to reinvent the wheel a la population control

  15. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    “Yes, the vaccine and the mosquitoes are quite dangerous to health”,

    GP…that was the same fear used when some scam artists from Australia and New Zealand were running around the earth screaming about an HPV virus pandemic and arrived in Barbados complete with vaccine to inject little girls while predicting how much sex these little girls will have and how much cervical cancer they will get from the virus, if they did not get the vaccine….the health professionals in Barbados were beside themselves….Ferdinand wanted to make the vaccinating of 11 year old girls mandatory…Alvin could not wait to see the vaccine used and nearly had a stroke justifying why it should be used., the yardfowl AC was flapping around sqawking in favor without knowing anything……lol, it was a mess.

    It was ok then because it was just little girls to destroy with a vaccine, despite FDA still investigating the vaccine, but now Zika is threatening tourism…it’s not like WHO or CDC gives a shit if tourists run away in droves, who cares, but it frightens others…so for Zika, Alvin is quiet, not saying anything and AC is flapping around catching a fit….there is still some way to go, lots of laughs…..this is a classic case of what goes around……

  16. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    WELL WELL
    RE there is still some way to go, lots of laughs…
    THATS TH NORM IN THE RUM SHOP

  17. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    WELL WELL

    CONSIDER THIS
    OF THE FLAVIVIRUSES YELLOW FEVER WAS AROUND LONG AGO
    DENGUE CAME TO BIM IN 77
    WEST NILE IS SEN IN NA IN POCKETS
    SO YOU CHECK IN NOW WITH ZIKA FOR YOUR NEW ALARM

  18. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    It is the year 2016.

    There are many ways to protect ourselves from being bitten by mosquitoes, sand flies and black flies.

    This works for me.

    http://www.off.com/en-US/Products/Pages/OFF-Deep-Woods-Sportsmen.aspx

  19. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    GP…..I remember when West Nile and SARS became the latest panic button…sigh…that’s all I can say.

    Hants…these days I use GO insect repellent, the one for kids, very gentle on the skin….glad am not in Florida, the mosquitoes are the size of dragon flies….frightening.

  20. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Hants February 3, 2016 at 12:14 AM #

    This works for me.
    ……………………………………
    Failing that you can get yourself some ladies tights. They worked for Robin Hood and his merry men.

  21. Antigua & Barbuda Uses Trade Policy to prevent Zika | Caribbean Trade Law and Development

    […] Caribbean countries, through their public health and other authorities, have been employing various Zika preventative and mitigation strategies, such as instituting fogging programmes, launching public awareness campaigns and advising women to delay becoming pregnant for up to two years. The Future Centre Trust, a non-governmental organisation in Barbados, is raising awareness among the general public on the need to reduce opportunities for mosquitoes to breed by eliminating littering and illegal dumping and by mapping illegal dump sites. An article which the Trust authored on the topic may be viewed here. […]

  22. David Avatar
    David

    Zika confirmed in three pregnant women

  23. David Avatar
    David

    An interesting link:

    http://gmwatch.org/news/latest-news/16706-argentine-and-brazilian-doctors-name-larvicide-as-potential-cause-of-microcephaly

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