Vehicle registration will be withheld for persons engaged in illegal dumping- Hon Malone
“I am passing down and I am seeing a 23 cubit ft refrigerator sitting on the side of the bin, now they could have gone down to the dump with that, they had to have some effort to take that out the truck and put it down next to the bin. Why not go and take it to its proper location?” Hon Malone told residents of the Third District during a community meeting at the Valerie O. Thomas Community Centre in Sea Cows Bay on January 30, 2020.
According to Hon Malone, there will be constant fines until performance improves.
“When the cameras go up, the number of the [licence] plates will go down, they would be sent to DMV and until you pay your fine you cannot get your vehicle registered. We have to get this done.”
Enforcement of laws will be a priority 'immediately'- Premier Fahie
Premier and Minister of Finance Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1), during his budget presentation on November 19, 2019 in the House of Assembly (HoA), had emphasised that bulk waste must be taken to the waste facility at Pockwood Pond for proper disposal.
“Citizens are reminded that it is an offence that carries a fine to dispose of household items such as furniture, fridges, stoves, etcetera, at the various garbage collection outlets.
“Enforcement of these laws will be a priority immediately,” Premier Fahie said, adding that a clean Virgin Islands is “all of our business.”
Small issues with incinerator being addressed
Meanwhile, residents were given the assurance by Hon Malone that the Department of Waste Management is close to being in a position to better dispose and manage waste at the incinerator at Pockwood Pond.
The incinerator was out of commission for over a year after a major fire that destroyed the control panel among other key components in November 2018.
The wait for a replacement control panel had been long and resulted in a build-up of solid waste and burying at Pockwood Pond.
Many landfill fires broke out as a result, causing inconvenience and health concerns for many.
According to Hon Malone, with the complete installation of the new control panel at the plant over a week ago, a number of minor mechanical problems were subsequently discovered.
“It has been tested, it is running. There are some mechanical issues because this heat that came out of the fire, it affected other areas. There were some water leaks because of some pipes also some hose that needed to be replaced.”
Nevertheless, the incinerator is still functional and once at its optimum “It would then reduce the need to bury untreated garbage up on the landfill,” Hon Malone assured, as he explained that the untreated garbage usually consists of, among other things, empty and/or damaged propane tanks, along with the other types of garbage that produces its own gases and the spontaneous combustions.
“So it was not a programme where they went and lit the fires in order to get it burnt. They have it buried, buried, buried but you have these cases wherever you have landfill fires in St Croix, fires in St Martin, everywhere you have a landfill situation. The only way to get this done is going back to what we are doing, get the incinerator moving.”
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14 Responses to “Vehicle registration will be withheld for persons engaged in illegal dumping- Hon Malone”
We smelled the smoke all night Feb 3 in the westend. Same old sh** .
Solid waste or Tourist Board need to remove the 'pitch in bins' also as they are used for household garbage. When the bags are too big for the bin, (by the bus stop) they are placed beside it.