Tyrone Reid, Staff Reporter
GREENE
ERROL GREENE is now the new boss at the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA).
The stint, which officially started yesterday, has quelled speculations that Mr. Greene was to head that agency. However, the controversy surrounding his future as Town Clerk at the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) rages on.
While declining to comment on today's meeting of the KSAC's Establishment Committee that is supposed to decide his fate at the local authority, Mr. Greene, who was seconded to the Kingston City Centre Improvement Company, suggested that the committee cannot fire him.
SECONDMENT
"I am on secondment (from the KSAC) for three years," he said.
The new Solid Waste boss told The Gleaner that he spent the first hour-and-a-half yesterday, in the post left vacant after the exit of the embattled Alston Stewart, at the Riverton City Landfill "getting his feet wet". He said that being boss of the NSWMA would prove a challenge, but he was ready to accept it.
As it now stands, Mr. Greene is 'manager pro tem' for three months at the state agency. He was undecided about whether he would seek to extend his tenure. "We will see. It is early days yet," he stated.
Kingston Mayor Desmond McKenzie had been critical of the decision since news broke recently that Mr. Greene was headed to the NSWMA. The mayor felt slighted, as he said neither the Ministry of Local Government nor Mr. Greene had contacted the KSAC to inform it of the move.
