• On May 3^rd and 4^th, the third major post-consumer waste collection day will take place.

• There will be a collection point at the Clarence Lynd Newball Memorial Hospital and a mobile route that will travel through the downtown of the Island and the neighborhoods of Hill and San Luis.

A call is made to all citizens to participate in the Grand Day of Collection of Post-consumer Waste, bringing your expired medications for human and veterinary use, partially consumed, deteriorated and their respective packaging; likewise, pesticide packaging for agricultural use, bulbs with mercury content (savers, fluorescent tubes and high intensity discharge bulbs HID), batteries, energy stores, computers, printers, scanners, keyboards, mouse, speakers, headbands, tablets, monitors, USB, UPS and communication elements such as fixed lines, cell phones and radiotelephones. These elements should be brought to the mobile route that will travel through the downtown area, San Luis and Hill, or they should approach the collection point located at the Clarence Lynd Newball Departmental Hospital.

El próximo 3 de mayo, la gobernación del Departamento Archipiélago y la Corporación para el Desarrollo Sostenible, Coralina, y la Corporación Punto Azul, celebrarán el segundo año del convenio de cooperación, con el fin de continuar afianzando lazos y continuar con los esfuerzos para disponer, adecuadamente, los residuos post-consumo de medicamentos.

• Health, safety, environment and culture will continue to be the priorities of the Government: Sandra Howard

The Vice Minister of Tourism, Sandra Howard Taylor, took office as Governor (In Charge) of the Departmental Archipelago of San Andres, Providence and Kethleena.

The Secretariat of Health, through the Transmissible and Zoonoses Diseases Program, is informing the community of Providence and Kethleena, that they will be carrying out home-to-home anti-rabies vaccinationfrom April 23^rd – 28^th of 2018. This activity is headed by the Zoonoses team of the Departmental Secretariat of Health.

En cumplimiento de lo señalado en el artículo 1.3.4.6 de la Resolución No. SSPD20101300048765 del 14-12-2010 de la Superintendencia de Servicios Públicos; la Secretaria de Servicios Públicos y Medio Ambiente en calidad de prestador directo del servicio de Aseo en su componente de Disposición Final del sitio denominado Relleno Sanitario MAGIC GARDEN, para el año 2017 presenta la siguiente información en relación al servicio prestado en dicha vigencia: