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May 21, 2004

Trelawny PC takes aim at illegal roadside garages

WESTERN BUREAU – The Trelawny Parish Council will next month begin closing down illegal roadside garages, according to council chairman Jonathan Bartley.

The council will get help from the Falmouth police whose head, Superintendent Jasmine Tomlinson-Brown, has already pledged support for the initiative.

“Almost every other street in Falmouth you go on, there is a little garage on the side of the road and some are very visible in the housing schemes throughout the parish,” Bartley, who is also Falmouth’s mayor, told the Observer.

He added that these structures also posed a serious threat to the integrity of roads in the parish, and they were an environmental hazard – particularly to marine life.

“The oil from the vehicles clogs the drain, some flow into the sea and (some) damage the roads significantly,” the mayor said.

“Mechanics will have to move to somewhere more conducive to conduct their businesses as they will be tolerated on the roads no longer.”

Bartley added that the council would also ask the National Solid Waste Agency to remove derelict vehicles from streets across the parish. The council is now collecting data on the amount of derelict vehicles in the various divisions before the solid waste agency is called in.

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