Trelawny Municipal Corporation, NSWMA partner to resolve garbage pile-up at Falmouth Market
TRELAWNY, Jamaica— The Trelawny Municipal Corporation (TMC) and the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) have partnered to resolve the issue of garbage pile-up at the Falmouth Market.
Mayor of Falmouth and chairman of the TMC, Councillor C Junior Gager announced that as part of an upcoming renovation exercise at the market, to cost some $12.5million, the location where three garbage collection skips are currently located, will be moved to another area.
The current location, where a pool of water settles whenever it rains, will be paved, he noted.
“We will be spending about $12.5 million to renovate some areas, bathrooms you name it. The garbage collection site is a part of that. We will be removing the site from this location. We are happy that we have partnered with NSWMA and we have made arrangements so that we can get some new skips and we will also be repairing the old skips,” Gager said.
“We want the people who attend the facility to feel satisfied. We are working on this. It is on our list and we are giving it all the necessary priority that can be given so that we can have a really good market.”
NSWMA executive director Audley Gordon promised that the number of the skips now at the facility will be doubled soon. He said the NSWMA will supply three new skips and gradually repair the three existing ones.
“The Solid Waste intends to put three new skips in place out of discussions with the mayor because the market has outgrown three skips. This is a very bustling part of the commercial life of Trelawny, and indeed western Jamaica and needs to have more facilities to store the garbage until the NSWMA can move it. So we are going to put in three additional skips,” Gordon told reporters during a tour of the market on Thursday.
He added: “The three which are here now, they are in need of some repair and once we put the three new ones we are going to move them one by one and bring them back. So overall we will end up with six skips.”
“We will do a thorough cleaning of the region to the best we can. We will then, having cleaned it, try to maintain it until the new facilities are in place,” he continued.
Recently stakeholders complained over the huge pile-up of garbage at the facility which is the home to the popular ‘Bend Down Market’ on Wednesdays.
