DECR:  Message for Dive Operators & Action to stop Illegal Vendors

By Dana Malcolm

Staff Writer

#TurksandCaicos, December 15, 2021 – The DECR has released another notice, this time to all Scuba diving operators in the Turks and Caicos.

The notice held a strict reminder that operators must resume the submission of dive statistics or NP5 forms as of January 2022. The DECR said that failure to do so will prevent renewals of national Park licenses for the 2022 to 2023 year.

DECR also advised that the stats must now be made monthly beginning in January; and the department is accepting them electronically at environment@gov.tc.

The Department of Environment and Coastal Resources (DECR) was also busy on cruise industry reopening day in Grand Turk, Monday December 13.

Out enforcing the government’s no license no vending rule.

At least one vendor was observed by Magnetic Media dismantling his stall and videos of another individual claiming he had been illegally detained and told to remove himself from ‘carnivals’ beach were also in circulation.

The requirement for a vending license was passed into law two weeks ago and applications for licenses were opened around that time as well.