Government continues to assure the public that additional Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) trucks as well as Transport Board buses are on the way.
On Thursday night, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley said Government had utilised an emergency procurement to order additional garbage trucks, while admitting that there was a garbage crisis.
She pointed out that the SSA will soon receive compactor trucks from one of the best known manufacturers and these could be here within a month.
“Under the procurement rules Government is allowed to do emergency procurement in a crisis,” Mottley stated, as she made reference to the ten garbage trucks which arrived two weeks ago and another ten due to arrive in another two to three months.
Mottley also mentioned the introduction of a “comprehensive educated programme for recycling in Barbados”.
She said the SSA would be including the Future Centre Trust and other institutions in this drive.
In terms of the Transport Board, she pointed out that 34 electric buses were being bought and the charging stations were already in place.
She said the Transport Board was now providing 80 buses a day to the travelling public.
“The chairman and management of the board of the Transport Board have been working with some of the existing suppliers known to the country to make sure that they can fix the buses and that we can get more on the road. I am happy that those numbers are on average just about 80 a day as opposed to the 40s that they were a year and a half ago,” she noted. (MB)
