The steering committee for the chlordecone plan, the fourth in the name, met on Wednesday January 26 in Martinique.
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Chlordecone is the pesticide used in the West Indies, against the banana weevil, and which has permanently polluted the soil, groundwater and seafood.
The chlordecone IV plan provides in particular for a free dosage of the molecule in the blood of Martiniquais. Gérard Thalmensy, the head of the environmental health department at the ARS, gave an update on research at the microphone of Fabrice Defrémont.
In Polynesia, new maritime routes have been formalized by an order from the High Commissioner in the Tuamotu Islands. This mainly concerns vessels over 15m in transit, to bypass the Fakarava biosphere reserve and avoid boat groundings.
The association ‘SOS gramounesisolats’ offers solidarity cohabitations: seniors host someone in exchange for a little company. There are also those who volunteer their time. A report by Suzette Emma.
It is a technology that could well change the lives of the 45,000 Guyanese who do not have access to drinking water, those who live in isolated villages in the Amazon rainforest. This is a filter fountain that makes all surface water drinkable: it will be tested for 6 months in a hamlet near Camopi, on the border with Brazil. The engineer Jean-Paul Augereau is the designer of this French invention. He is at the microphone of Isabel Lerouge.