By Erica James-King, Staff Reporter
Onlookers stop to examine this white Toyota Corolla station wagon that ended up in a ditch on the Paradise Main road Sunday afternoon. There were no reports of any serious injuries. - Paul Reid / Staff Photographer
WESTERN BUREAU:
THE NATIONAL Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) and the Trelawny Parish Council are implementing measures to overhaul sanitation and waste disposal facilities in Trelawny. An important prong of the revamping process will see the extension of garbage collection services to at least 30 additional communities in the parish.
In a letter to the NSWMA, which the Trelawny Parish Council intends to submit before the end of January, it will be outlining a list of areas that are in need of an expansion of garbage collection and sweeping services. The list was circulated at the last sitting of the Trelawny Parish Council for the scrutiny of the parish councillors who would then make additions to that inventory.
The Council was responding to a letter dated December 4, 2003 that was sent by the NSWMA requesting an inventory of areas that need new or improved refuse collection services.
Among the communities cited by the Parish Council as in need of those pick-up services are: New Cargen, Highgate Hall, Zion, Logwood Walk, Wilson Run Square, Zion, Davis Penn and Troy.
Another new waste management feature for Trelawny, according to promises from the NSWMA, is that within a few days, an improved garbage collection schedule will be in place for the parish capital Falmouth and other areas currently served by Western Parks and Markets (WPM).
"Trelawny now has an informal schedule of collection, but the collection schedule for Trelawny will be more structured and improved in two weeks," Tracey Thomas, Customer Relations Officer with the NSWMA told January's monthly meeting of the Trelawny Parish Council. "The parish is also to get a new sanitation manager and that will assist the process to make waste management in the parish more efficient."
In the meantime, Mayor of Falmouth Councillor Jonathan Bartley is lamenting that WPM has not been allocating enough time for garbage collection in the parish, despite the fact that Trelawny recently received a solid waste collection truck which brings to two, the fleet serving that parish. "I have noticed that the trucks are only operating during the days, but with the amount of solid waste collection needed in the parish WPM needs to assign trucks to work at nights or even for an additional three hours each day," stressed the Mayor. "These services are badly needed during the evenings, when vendors finish working and put out their solid waste."
