Mai says San Pedro D.O.E. Substation is a Success  

In late June, San Pedro welcomed its own office for the Department of Environment. There, the D.O.E conducts several duties, such as managing natural resources, preserving and protecting the environment, and controlling pollution. Today, Chief Environmental Officer Anthony Mai provided an update on the duties of the station and he told us that it has been a great success.

 

Anthony Mai, Chief Environmental Officer, D.O.E.

“There are several issues that we have dealt with. So again, the San Pedro substation is our first attempt at decentralization. It is critically important to have an office in San Pedro because it is the fastest developing. And we’ve been there, we’ve been there for a couple months now, and over that period, we have definitely dealt with some serious issues, maybe four or five of them. We currently have one in the pipeline. Have people been persecuted, or are you in the works to persecute them? Yes, we’re in the process of persecuting a few, yeah, a few persons. We also are from, we, and enforcement and persecution is just one aspect of what we’re doing on the island. We have also been providing advice to the Town Council. and the Caye Caulker Village Function in terms of some of the development plans, et cetera. And we are participating in some sensitization training and et cetera, sharing of information in relation to the environment. So it’s much more than just a hardcore enforcement compliance monitoring. We’re doing other support activities as well, but yeah, we do have some enforcement related matters in the pipeline.”