FRIDAY, JANUARY 08, 2021 VOLUME 115, No.01 www.thevincentian.com EC$1.50 Quarantine case Man-About- CoP chides ‘Bigger Biggs’ COVID collapses Town officers relaxed update Page 4 Page 7 Page 13 Page 17 Page 24 Household garbage and other debris scattered across the main road in Rose Place, effectively blocking vehicular traffic. Story on Page 3. The drain that remains a bone of contention is an ideal breeding ground for disease-carrying mosquitoes. Left: Rose Place residents took to the street to vent their frustration over the pile up of garbage in their community. 2. FRIDAY, JANUARY 08, 2021 . THE VINCENTIAN V News 3 lHE VINCENTIAN. FRIDAY, JANUARY 08, 2021. 3. Call to remove concrete enclosure facilities provided for that VINCENTIAN on community. Tuesday that ‘outsides’ And he is appealing to are using the community the relevant authorities as a dumping ground. to “close down the “Restaurants, Syrian concrete enclosure” in stores, coconut vendors, particular, since it government buildings encourages an unhealthy and all, hospital and all environment. throwing things there,” The concrete enclosure Haywood stated with a is one of two facilities tone of disgust. provided for garbage “Why the business disposal in the places them don’t get the community, the other garbage truck to remove being a ‘garbage skip’. their garbage? What they Residents in the are doing is that they community of Rose Place looking for the vagrants on Tuesday morning and pay them a three blocked one of the main dollars or a five dollars road in the area with to throw the garbage garbage and other debris down here. I telling you Kenrick Haywood, a that they said were left the truth, and is early resident of Rose Place, undisposed since before morning and late night gave a detailed account Christmas Day. they are throwing the The concrete enclosure was in use a day after it was cleared and cleaned. of the misuse of the However, following garbage a lot of the garbage facilities in that media attention health times. detailed what seemed to concrete enclosure to be public or else face the community by officials and workers at “Me and them does be a routine. “removed”, a call that prospect of being fine. ‘outsiders’. the Solid Waste have argument because I “They can do better was echoed by MP for THE VINCENTIAN Management Unit does wake up early and the health the West Kingstown visited the community KENRICK HAYWOOD is responded swiftly and morning too and waiting authorities should constituency, Daniel again on Wednesday, a among residents of Rose cleaned the area. for them. Even if the enforce the law to fine Cummings. day after the action Place who are calling for Haywood who lives in garbage dump is full persons who are He is also appealing to taken by the Rose Place businesses and other proximity to the concrete they still throwing their dumping their garbage Vincentians on a whole residents. Garbage could outsiders to stop disposing enclosure, told THE waste here,” Haywood illegal,” said Haywood. to keep the country clean be seen in the concrete of their garbage in the Haywood called for the and stop urinating in enclosure. (KH) Garbage Woes in Rose Place by KENVILLE HORNE hard-court, along which a garbage pile-up and misuse of number of shops (and food the facilities provided came RESIDENTS OF ROSE PLACE, on vendors) are located. into view when it was noted Tuesday morning blocked the The concrete enclosure and that a drain leading into the main road through the skip are managed by the Solid sea, was clearly backed-up community with household Waste Management Unit. with residue, creating what garbage and other debris, which could be described as an ideal they said were left unattended, ‘A dumping ground’ breeding ground for i.e. undisposed since before mosquitoes. Carlos Wilson, Senior Environmental Health Official (right) in Christmas Day. A disconcerting smell and “They have the place like a discussion with residents. However, following quick buzzing flies greeted THE dumping ground and we tired. postings of the action on social VINCENTIAN’s reporter when We have kids living here and why they ain’t paying we to Kingstown Constituency, in media platforms, health he arrived in the community the situation is really sad,” clean up here?” Gumbs which Rose Place is located, officials and the Solid Waste Tuesday morning. said one resident, with a wondered aloud. was on hand to help in Management Unit responded It was not long after his concern that the drain could At least two trucks — quelling frustrations. swiftly to have the garbage arrival that residents began breed the Dengue Fever including the truck specially He told persons gathered removed and the throughway airing their grievances, some mosquito that had already designed to carry the skip - that the situation was bigger reopened. using strong language, claimed some lives. were involved in the removal than emptying the bin. “We Some angry and frustrated including expletives, while of the garbage, after which the have a continuous problem residents of the West others were more restrained in ‘Politics playing’ road was reopened to with the skip and the concrete Kingstown community, which registering their disgust. vehicular traffic. box (concrete enclosure) that is earmarked to undergo The majority, though, Rudolph ‘Shark’ Gumbs, a During the time it took to encourage persons from all transformation with the attested to what they claimed stalwart of the community, make this happen, Senior over to use the area as a construction of a New was the last visit by the voiced an opinion that the Environmental Health Officer, dump. I am again requesting Kingstown Port, said that the garbage truck — some time treatment handed out to the Carlos Wilson consulted with the removal of the concrete community had become a before Christmas Day was the community “had to do with the frustrated residents. He box and provision of regular dumping ground for garbage consensus of the visibly angry politics.” promised to look further into plastic bins to the residents,” from business places in residents. He pointed to other drains the matter as it related to said the MP. improving collection and Kingstown, as well as coconut “One of dem bin say dat de that he said the authorities Residents, meanwhile, took removal of garbage from Rose vendors. garbage trucks breakdown but paid to have cleaned but in to a live Facebook feed to Place, and the use of the The business houses and you mean to say dem cyar find pointing to the one that was further vent their disgust with coconut vendors dump their no truck to move out the clearly a hot bed for facilities by businesses and persons not located in the the situation, and call on the garbage, shells in the case of garbage,” said a male who did mosquitoes, he said, “Them relevant authorities to address the coconut vendors, in a large not want to be identified. say up ya, because now we ah community. Daniel Cummings, the matter urgently so as to concrete enclosure and/or More evidence of unhealthy NDP they say they ain’t giving avoid a reoccurrence of today’s metal skip located next to the conditions occasioned by the we work to clean up here …… Opposition Parliamentary Representative for the West action. 4. FRIDAY, JANUARY 08, 2021. THE VINCENTIAN V Court Quarantine case collapses Stories by HAYDN HUGGINS quarantine for 14 days, 5 in an approved facility and Bruce also told THE VINCENTIAN that there 9 at home, in accordance with the Public Health Act, was a breach of the confidentially of the person in LAST Tuesday’s collapse of a as it related to the COVID-19 pandemic. quarantine. He noted that Jackson had told the breach of quarantine case Jackson’s case is the first of this nature to go Court that on the fifth day of her quarantine at the here was mainly the result of through a trial, and the first in which an acquittal approved facility, it was communicated to her gaping holes in the was secured. through the receptionist that her test was negative administration of the law. In his no case submission, Bruce not only and that she could go. That’s the view of challenged the flaws in the prosecution’s case, but According to Bruce, that information should have Attorney Israel Bruce who also questioned what he described as gaping holes in been given to Jackson directly by the health worker, represented the defendant, the Health Care System. and not through a third party. Jeyandra Jackson, a Speaking with THE VINCENTIAN on Tuesday In relation to the health aspect, Bruce said that resident of Long Piece, who following Jackson’s acquittal, Bruce made it clear the Ministry needs to make a determination had resided in Canada that he does not support anybody who breaches the between isolation and quarantine. before arriving here in Attorney Israel quarantine order as he had a duty to country, and He is of the view that during the 9 days October 2020. Bruce successfully noted that the recent amendment to the Public quarantine at home, anything could happen, as Jackson, 22, walked free defended his client Health Act was put in place to protect Vincentians. some of these houses have several persons living from the Kingstown against charged laid But the added, “There are so many gaping holes there, and they could go out and come in as they Magistrate’s Court on as per an in the administration of the law, and that is why, in like.