Mangrove Restoration project is most commendable

The forecast by local scientists that hundreds of people living in Clarendon's southern coastal region could be exposed to a disaster of cataclysmic proportions if the island gets hit by a major weather system this year is frightening. 

According to the scientists, who are from The University of the West Indies' (The UWI) Solutions for Developing Countries (SODECO), the possibility of such a disaster has its foundation in the fact that just under a half of the approximately 3,500 hectares of mangroves stretching along the coast between Milk River and Salt River have been destroyed by human activity and intense weather systems.

One such weather system, the scientists told us last Thursday, was Hurricane Ivan, which devastated Portland Cottage and other communities along that coast in 2004...Read More