Waste dep’t reports progress in landfill clean-up

Machines deployed to the site at work

A week after government promised to aid in clearing the Mandela Avenue landfill, Solid Waste Director Hubert Urlin said yesterday that the assistance has been of great help.

Urlin, addressing the last statutory council meeting for the year yesterday, said three excavators were deployed to the landfill by the Ministry of Works to assist with the machinery that the council had on site to assist with the moving of garbage to the cell two area.

Also, the contractor Puran’s Brothers