Ian Allen/Staff Photographer
Errol Greene (centre), new executive chairman of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), watches as a mini dump on the Spanish Town by-pass in St. Catherine is cleared yesterday. He is flanked by representatives of the NSWMA and the St. Catherine Parish Council.
Omar Anderson, Gleaner Writer
Less than a week in his job, Errol Greene, the former town clerk who is now executive chairman of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), has begun a clean-up campaign in earnest.
Accompanied by front-end loaders and trucks, Mr. Greene and several NSWMA employees arrived yesterday at two sites in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, where they say illegal dumping of garbage was taking place.
He said mini dumps were found at Homestead and the intersection of St. John's Road and the Spanish Town by-pass.
changing things immediately
But the new solid waste boss who started his job last Monday, told The Sunday Gleaner he wants to change things immediately.
"We are looking at the dumps and we are in the process of clearing them," he said. "The hurricane season is on us and we need to move some of the garbage that will end up in our water tables and gullies."
While unable to say how many illegal mini dumps exist, Mr. Greene said the NSWMA would be dealing with others as soon as resources became available.
Mr. Greene recently left the Kingston City Centre Improvement Company as executive director to head the NSWMA. But the move was shrouded in controversy as the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation, from which he was seconded, claimed it was not officially informed of his transfer to the solid waste body.
