I am a resident of the Canefield Housing Scheme and it is with much concern that I write to you to assist us with this health hazard that we are faced with.
Today marks three weeks and two days that our garbage has not been picked up. With the number of developed and developing health situations that we are challenged and plague with, I believe that our Health Department should make it their business to ensure that every measure is exercise and taken to maintain a clean environment. Knowing that our island is not equipped to deal with most of the health situations we can’t add to the already developed one.
The lane in which that I live is so unsightly that it is a disgrace to even walk or drive through the lane. The neighbors bins are now currently overflowing and therefore they seek a new spot to dump their garage which is very close to the entrance of my dwelling place.
I am very concern for my family and myself as I have exhausted all avenues including; Solid Waste, The Head of the Canefield Urban Council and also placed calls to the Ministry of Health.
I am requesting the assistance of your media link to help us stay safe and healthy.
The amount of money skerrit use to rename the airport and pay people to vote for him, could pay the workers their salary.he spend the money like it was his, dominica wake up the money is taxpayers or loans skerrit get on dominica back.
Where is the health dept, Timothy do your job clean up dominica.
And now to add insult to injury they are adding even more garbage to what is already there. Overnight the country is being plastered with posters and hoardings at enormous expense that make the place look ugly and will have to be discarded at enormous expense after the election. Ironically they are proclaiming that labour ka twavay. Where is that twavay I would like to know. Can all these posters keep the environment clean or put food on the table? Is that what Nature Isle is supposed to look like? A third-world country with a personality cult? Yes sir, we have money to plaster the place with posters but no money to collect garbage. Malgraysa.
If only it was Canefield that had this problem but I am sorry to tell You it is Islandwide!
I live next to the Princess Margaret Hospital ,I am six houses from the Mayor,I am less than two blocks from the parliamentary Representative Julius Timothy who happens to be the Minister of Health and My Garbage was not collected .Fat Rats waddling like overfed Politicians boldly walk up the stairs to my house ,They may be carrying a number of diseases.
All this money that is being spent by the DLP to seewoh their Voters and yet this Administration cannot pick up our garbage .
Are we adopting the Haitian model? Big State Palace ,numerous Ton Ton Ma coutes and a population living in poverty and squalor?
Change is a must !
For the town of Portsmouth, just a couple of weeks ago the PM promised to give $250,000.00 to the newly appointed mayor to solve those problems. People of Portsmouth are living in garbage, and the worse part of it all is that dogs takes up the garbage and distributes them from one area to another. From one person yard to another. For those people who can’t support their children, has multiple dogs that they can’t feed, so the dogs are fed from the multiple piles of garbage. The next road match by king dyce should be on Dominica garbage mountains.
We are going to see a lot of these type of letters during the election campaign. Why not show us what you all can and is willing to do to improve our quality of life. The same ones who are complaining are the ones who are contributing to the situation. This is the only way some people know how to fight-dirty. I guess all is fair in love and war. Some people in our society breed on negativity.
In Castle Bruce, no pick up for at least, 6 weeks. Finally today a pick up. I was wondering if there was a strike going on. It is a sad situation.
Doesn’t Castle Bruce have a parl rep. by the name of Drigo to look after your intersts?
It appears mister is Dri for real and you will soon tell him to Go for services to improve.
Your problem is that the Simeon spends most of his time on his fishing boat and on the animal show. Now election has been called, done expect him to spend any time in the Urban Council’s Office. Canefield, your are on your own. The man cannot even run a two by two office, yet , he want to criticize Mr. Lennox Linton.
All I will say is LAYBAR KAR MALTWAVAY!!!
This is all a result of the failed DLP regime. Cabinet is dissolved so minister just there laughing in your face and giving gifts for vote while the place stinking up. I thought we had a tourism strategy that included waste management? Another reason why DLP have to be kicked in the behind on December 8th.
Them man dissolve cabinet and refuse to;
1. Clean canefield garbage
2. Pay Public Works people their money
3. Give Civil Service Servants their raise
4. Give Policemen their raise
5. Prosecute Seco Seko
6. Arrest the “easiest door” for firebombing
7. Partake in elections debate
8. Telling us where they get all that money for campaign allowing us to conclude that it came from the sale of passports
But, December 8th is drawing neigh and the silent majority will daycarlay them. Change is a MUST!
Assertive, NOT Aggressive!
The real health hazard I see in Dominica as an outsider from another island, is the burning of rubbish containing dry grass/weeds/and sometime plastic. This a call for lung cancer and asthma for your children, not to mentioned the unhealthy air others have to breathe. Those who do this should be prosecuted!
Amen brother, burning that rubbish should be subject to a heavy fine. Especially burning that plastic, pvc is very carcenogenic, it gives you cancer people. The worst is the burning of old tires in public. You know what is in there, especially carbon black. That can kill you straight away We are so backward in some aspects and when you complain people are saying you are negative. Well, if making noise about such bad practices is negative I will gladly be negative for the sake of my health.
HOW ABOUT GARBAGE pickup a problem allll overr……some of the garbage collectors need to be reported …sometimes u put ur garbage out on the day of pickup sometimes they come at 4 am!!! sometimes they are late and stray dogs tear the bags thy dont want to pick up the garbage the dogs have torn
that article was so needed and timely.
This is really a disgrace, to the Island of Dominica. We have been known to be the Nature Isles of the Caribbean, and we need to remain that way. I believe this is where the PM should pay much attention, instead of getting occupied with election.
Instead of going around trying to bribe the people for votes, please attend to this garbage problem. people’s health is at stake.
That is true. Rubbish is making Canfield really dirty and unpleasant . One cannot keep garbage at their homes for a long time.
Well the masses should know that DOMinica Solid Waste was privatised. So they BRokkkkkkkkkkkke, no trucks and no money. Ask the workers when do they get paid? Investigate SOLId Watse. Yo Par Ni l’argent!
Labour Ka TWa vye
All we are concerned in Dominica is Sewo, but garbage is over flowing their banks. They need to take the campaign money to buy a few new Garbage trucks.
I’m sure you don’t see all that garbage in front of the Sate House so why the ordinary, tax paying citizens have to suffer like that?
Labour ka twavay!!!
Hmm, you are funny Dorival. Let people put their uncollected garbage at the bottom of these billboards glorifying our magnificent leader and see how labour ka twavay! I would like that, really really like that
This is the same at Canefield East.. Bins are overflowing. Please Solid Waste do something! Hire Dump Trucks if your truck is down. This cannot remain this way.
when our people stop play politics and bring confusion into the work place the government will pay solid waste their dues.for now take what allu get.DLP that paying alu and allu mal parlering them.Don’t bite the hands that feed you.
What does a person’s view of DLP have to do with paying Solid Waste it’s dues? That is the sick nation we have become where citizens are made to suffer because they have a difference of opinion and don’t pay homage to DLP. Dominica is not serious about waste management, PERIOD
i have never read garbage like this… bite de hand that feed you. so government has reduced to political party… poor dominicans, you are so sort.
Carcon take off your blinkers. Is labour party supporters too that have garbage uncollected, it affects all of us.. You must realize that Skerrit have even less respect for you because you accepting everything and staying moumou. Is the opposition he is worried about and respects because they force him into action, not people like you.
This comment reinforces the need for a drastic and urgent change in Dominica. A change in the government is necessary absolutely howe very with a change of government there must be a major effort to elevate the mind and intelligence of our people. In this Era someone who clearly is more educated than my great grand and can access a computer can present such an argument is really cause for concern. “The DLP is paying or providing the money to pay public servants ?” is this innocence? Stupidity? Ignorance? Mischief?.
Whatever it is we have much more than a maladministration issue and there is no way we can catch up with such a high level of blindness blue red or green
well all this is expected. lack of financing and competent management will eventually result in an increase of solid waste generated diseases such as gastroenteritis. Let’s continue to play politics with the social services of Doinic
All that while the Board of Directors, Minister of Health and PS playing politics at Solid Waste. There actions are bearing fruit.
And i cannot get my tax return as yet from inland revenue ,
Skeritt ,,,give inland revenue their money so that they can pay me ,or i will go on Q soon
I am a Canfield resident as well…..and I am deeply concern. If only solid waste would issue an advisory. In this day and age, why is garbage left for days?
It is not just Canefield…all over Dominica is the same. It is unsightly.
we have the same problem in beau bois h/scheme..garbage is pilled up for two weeks now and no truck..that goes for eggleston and giraudel communities as well..will somebody pls help…
The pile up of garbage in the Beau Bois, Gommier Stewart, Giraudel and Egglestion communities is appalling. That also goes for the height of the grass on the roadside that makes most of the corners a death trap.
Can Some One Tell me What Part In Canefield are they Talking About Thanks.
It’s all over Canefield the person who ask what part of Canefield is that the issue? the issue is garbage garbage every where not being picked up for weeks.
I agree. Garbage is all over Canefield. You do not even have to enter the housing areas. Just stop by Old Mill Cultural Center, there are piles of garbage since after Miss Wob Dwyet Show two weeks ago. Tourist visit Old Mill but this time they are greeted by a HUGE pile of garbage.
Don’t worry, all that will go into the report of Carnival cruise line when they make up their mind whether to return to Dominica for good or not. Such shortsighted management logic of the government and Skerrit bragging about his leadership qualities. That is not even a joke, it is sick.
The heading should read, “LACK OF GARBAGE PICKUP IN DOMINICA”. Imagine two days ago was Community Day of Service, and it is appalling to see the amount of garbage waiting to be picked up in Portsmouth.
But all night they putting up posters and billboard. I wonder if there was a garbage truck in any of the three containers of freeness that came for the PM last week….hmmmm.
You all are not labourites so Blackmore will squeeze you all with the stench,very sad in this country we call dominica,continue ti fill the labour ministers pockets.
thats a stupid comment
I share your pain and concern but you must come to Portsmouth to see the garbage in the middle of the town. Now this is the Portsmouth that vote the Labor Party sun or rain.
I have no intension of arginalizing your plight, in fact my intension is to join you in your cry for help in a time where the sitting government is throwing money around to buy votes whereas the basic requirements like the hospital service,, environmental health services, cost of living salary adjustment, salaries for public works etc are all suffering .
I to am from Canefield and my garbage is starting to breed flies. I have said that I would have to get a metal drum and start burning my rubbish in it but i don’t think my neighbors would like that too much.
I can confirm this. I am also a resident of Canefield. Upper Canefield too be exact. We have been faced with sporadic pick ups of our garbage and this has become a massive embarrassment. There is sometimes garbage piled up at the roadsides because residents put out their garbage on the designated days and the truck does not pass!. It is sometimes seen on the flat but does not come up the hill. Why?? we are asking. The authorities make no statement, make no apology, yet still WE HAVE TO PAY FEES….
Please, can someone look at this urgently, and we don’t want some stupid comment that that is a one-off incident, and it does not happen all the time, because WE KNOW BETTER!! Address the issue and let us know what is going on. It is not healthy, and furthermore we have tourists being transported along this route and they are seeing garbage piled on the sides of the roads..SMH. Please do something about this….
Thank you.
Lady I symphatise with you. How can a government claim that it is ready for ebola when it can not not even manage its waste disposal service? Go and see in Africa what helps spread infections like that. It are insanitary living conditions.