The National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO), with the support of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), and the United Nations International
Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), will host a three-day workshop to develop the five-year Country Work Programme (CWP), for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Motorists driving in rural areas across the country have been warned that the Traffic Department of the local Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force, will be on the look out for persons who violate the Noise Act, by playing loud music in their vehicles.
More than one hundred students are expected to receive certificates this week, when the curtain comes down on the 2018 Summer Programme co-ordinated by the Police Force Band.
An Earthquake occurred Wednesday, 22nd August, at 9:27 a.m. near the Coast of Venezuela. Information generated by the Seismic Research Centre, University of the West Indies, states that the earthquake occurred at Latitude 10.60N and Longitude 62.87W or 41.0 km ESE of Carúpano, Venezuela, 100.0 km NNE of Maturín, Venezuela, 116.0 km SE of Porlamar, Venezuela.