Tag: environmental damage
DoE: Mangroves could have been saved
(CNS): A property owner who cleared her land without a permit and before planning permission has been granted for a home removed healthy mangroves that the Department of Environment said could have been saved. In submissions to the Central Planning Authority for an application to be heard Wednesday, the DoE sounded the alarm, again, about […]
Ministry seeks to ‘safeguard’ cruise project
(CNS): The tourism ministry has said that following due process and collecting as much information as possible about the proposed cruise berthing facility in George Town is to “safeguard the project from unintended consequences in the future”. The comment comes in response to the position taken by the Cayman Islands Tourism Association not to support […]
Cruise ships dump a billion gallons of raw sewage
(CNS): Data released by the US government has revealed that cruise ships dumped more than a billion gallons of sewage in the ocean last year, much of it raw or poorly treated. Federal data analyzed by Friends of the Earth, a global environmental organisation, said that their assessment demonstrates the continued need for stronger rules […]
