Eccles landfill likened to ‘environmental time bomb’

Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan yesterday described the Haags Bosch sanitary landfill at Eccles, East Bank Demerara as a disaster and “environmental time bomb” declaring that BK International has failed in in its management of the site and government wants it gone.

“We are looking to have a parting of ways, a separation, a divorce in the central government and BK operating or responsible for management of that site because they have failed and we want them off of the site,” Bulkan told this newspaper yesterday when asked about the project.

Stabroek News had approached him on comments he was reported as making in the Guyana Chronicle where he indicated that the