The Na­tion­al Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Agency (NaD­MA) says it con­tin­ues to care­ful­ly mon­i­tor the on­go­ing oil spill which oc­curred off the coast of To­ba­go.

Since the last up­date NaD­MA has held meet­ings with sev­er­al en­ti­ties in­clud­ing the Caribbean Dis­as­ter Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency (CDE­MA), the Caribbean In­sti­tute for Me­te­o­rol­o­gy and Hy­drol­o­gy (CIMH), the Re­gion­al Ma­rine Pol­lu­tion Emer­gency, the In­for­ma­tion and Train­ing Cen­tre (RAC/REM­PEEITC CARIBE), and the Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment (ODPM) in Trinidad and To­ba­go. 

“The ob­jec­tive of these en­gage­ments was to as­cer­tain the ex­act lo­ca­tion and like­ly con­tin­ued tra­jec­to­ry of the oil­slick to de­ter­mine the ex­tent to which it may af­fect Grena­da’s ma­rine ar­eas,” said NaD­MA in a re­lease on Sat­ur­day. 

The agency al­so said that an oil spill com­mit­tee has been ac­ti­vat­ed and will con­tin­ue to work with re­gion­al and hemi­spher­ic part­ners to mon­i­tor the sit­u­a­tion. 

The Agency said that it will con­tin­ue to pro­vide time­ly up­dates to the pub­lic as and when more ac­cu­rate in­for­ma­tion is avail­able.

“NaD­MA re­as­sures that the sit­u­a­tion is be­ing mon­i­tored, and the pub­lic should con­tin­ue to pay at­ten­tion to the up­dates and any an­nounce­ments re­lat­ed to the oil spill.”

The oil spill com­mit­tee has al­so been placed on stand­by to ac­ti­vate the emer­gency plan if nec­es­sary.

ST GEORGE’S, Grena­da, Feb. 17, CMC – 

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