Rayon Dyer, Gleaner Writer
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BLACK RIVER, St. Elizabeth:
ERROL GREENE, chairman of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), said that the agency would be looking more closely at the management of landfills across the country.
He said that the NSWMA was also considering the option of employing landfill managers to adequately deal with the issue of solid waste management, especially at the community level.
Mr. Greene made these comments while addressing the monthly general meeting of the St. Elizabeth Parish Council last Thursday.
URGENT ATTENTION
"Commercial waste is also a critical issue for us, not only in Kingston, but at the rural level as well. And, I want to confess that this is something that we are going to have to deal with very urgently," Mr Greene said.
The NSWMA boss urged St. Elizabeth parish councillors and officers who were present at the meeting to "start working with the NSWMA to try to find a way to manage solid waste, which is being wantonly disposed of across the rural communities."
Mr. Greene, who is also the former Town Clerk, proposed to the meeting that all old vehicles be stored at a particular location, following which a website be established to advertise them for sale.
On the matter of garbage collection, Mr. Greene said, "It is unfair to the people in rural Jamaica to be paying their property taxes, and yet their garbage is not being collected at an acceptable level."
Among the concerns of the council are that more garbage collection units need to be deployed in the parish and that the services of the authority be improved at the parish level.
