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New waste strategy rehashes old goals
In 2013 the government adopted a comprehensive strategy to overhaul the territoryâs waste management system from the ground up. Most of its plans were not accomplished, but now leaders are …
Government is currently seeking input on a draft National Waste Management Strategy, which recommends increasing home trash pickup and reducing the number of communal bins like the one pictured above in Cane Garden Bay, among many other measures. (Photo: DANA KAMPA)
In 2013 the government adopted a comprehensive strategy to overhaul the territoryâs waste management system from the ground up. Most of its plans were not accomplished, but now leaders are hosting public consultations on a new draft strategy that includes many of the same goals â while also incorporating lessons from hurricanes Irma and Maria.
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Incinerator back up after weeks offline
The Pockwood Pond incinerator is burning trash again after being offline for about six weeks, during which residents complained frequently about the fires and smoke from the landfill behind the …
Smoke drifted past the incinerator in Pockwood Pond on April 6 before the facility was repaired this week. Now it is working to process a backlog of trash, some of which is piled behind the incinerator building, above. (Photo: DANA KAMPA)
The Pockwood Pond incinerator is burning trash again after being offline for about six weeks, during which residents complained frequently about the fires and smoke from the landfill behind the facility.
Detectives from the Hanover Police Division arrested and charged 27-year-old Christopher Martin, otherwise called ‘Tongue’, of Bachelors Hall, Lucea in the parish with the offences of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, shooting with intent, illegal possession of firearm and illegal possession of ammunition following an incident in his community on Wednesday, March 31.
Martin was charged on Tuesday, April 13.
The charges arose in relation to the murders of 53-year-old Neville Allen of Shaw Drive in Lucea, and 18-year-old Aldeon Brackett, otherwise called ‘Tall Man’, of Malcolm Heights, also in the parish.
Reports are that about 11:20 am, three men were fixing a wall when Martin, armed with a firearm, approached them and opened fire.
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