Chairman of the Carib-bean Community (Cari-com), Dr. Kenny Anthony, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, has intensified calls for a halt to the shipment of hazardous waste through the Caribbean Sea, given the risks such shipments pose to the lives and livelihoods of people of the region, a release from the Caricom Secretariat said.
The call was made on Friday ahead of the transshipment of vitrified high level waste from the United Kingdom to Japan through the Caribbean Sea. The Caribbean Sea constitutes not