Next week, the Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) will begin the arduous task of removing tonnes of garbage from Maxwell Hill, Christ Church, taken from bins by a woman who then created the mini landfill.
Residents from the area breathed a sigh of relief yesterday when the new Minister responsible for the SSA Adrian Forde; Parliamentary representative Ralph Thorne, and senior officials in the Ministry of Health brought them the good news.
The garbage thief, who residents identified as a woman named “Michelle”, was said to have a history of mental illness. She has been removing garbage from neighbours’ bins late at night or in the wee hours of the morning and taking it to her well-built dump in a bushy, secluded area, below a hill.
She has also dumped wood, bricks, stone, galvanised sheets and other household waste on the 40-feet high mound. (MB)
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