As part of the reformation of quarrying operations, Minister within the Ministry of Natural Resources, Simona Broomes, has suggested that formal training be conducted for sand pit operators by the Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC).
“I’m going to recommend that when we go onsite at these pits the [GGMC] officers talk to the persons on the ground [explaining] what we are measuring and doing so even practically on the ground they can start to have some training in that regard,” Broomes was quoted as saying in a press release from the Department of Information (DPI).
According to the DPI release, the minister’s recommendations includes the setting up of safe operations and the calculations of quantities extracted, and follows her visits to sandpits along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway. The minister’s suggestions were among the issues discussed on Tuesday at a meeting between the minister, sandpit operators, licence holders and officials of the GGMC at the Ministry of Natural Resources, Duke Street. The meeting was a follow-up to Broomes’ visits of the highway sandpits.
