RESIDENTS OF ST STEPHEN’S, Black Rock, St Michael, are demanding answers from the authorities over a dumping site in their community situated just a few hundred metres behind the University of the West Indies and within touching distance of a major water reservoir.
Householders said that trucks had been offloading garbage from skips, and then using a mini-excavator to cover the waste with dirt.
Hundreds of garbage bags, noise from the machinery and an unidentified liquid on the ground are fuelling their fears.
These sounds, sights and smells of what they had seen unfold at the old Rogers quarry, had left them pinching their noses and dubbing the area “Mount Stinkeroo”. (AD)
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