Topic: George Town landfill
EDITORIAL – Youth center on hold: Saving face after the ‘about-face’
We prefer our lawmakers to be serious and stalwart individuals — determination in their demeanors, steel in their eyes and spines. Squishiness is better left to invertebrates (polyps, anemones or jellyfish), which drift this way and that with the currents, tides and trends.
George Town landfill: Government sets target for dump bid
Having acknowledged the cruise pier contract will not happen before the election, the Progressives government remains confident it will have a deal in place for its other major infrastructure priority – the George Town landfill.
EDITORIAL — Year in review
Today we are featuring excerpts from some of the most interesting, compelling and entertaining editorials that have appeared in the Cayman Compass in 2016, on some of the most important issues facing our country.
Seasonal workers clean up landfill
A team of workers from the National Community Enhancement Project, known as NiCE, is helping to clean up the George Town landfill.
Gov’t focus on price led to bad scrap metal contract
A botched 2013 contract to clean up scrap metal at the George Town Landfill focused too much on price instead of the ability to do the job, according to a new report from the Office of the Auditor General.
Nearly 600 get Christmas cleanup work
About 22 percent fewer people have been registered for the Cayman Islands government’s Christmas cleanup program this holiday season compared to the 2015 cleanup effort.
Cabinet approves sending landfill plan out for bids
Cabinet on Tuesday approved a new plan for the George Town landfill, including a waste-to-energy plant to incinerate waste. The new waste management strategy calls for capping the landfill, creating a new recycling facility on the site and reducing the amount of waste going into the landfill by 95 percent.
EDITORIAL – Premier McLaughlin muddies the waters of ‘Alden Pond’
On Thursday, Premier Alden McLaughlin purported to “correct” a Cayman Compass editorial that stated his Progressives government had squandered an opportunity to obtain land adjoining Smith Cove from the Dart Group. Premier McLaughlin then proceeded to lay out, in detail, how accurate the Compass’s observations were.
EDITORIAL – Land mines in the latest landfill report
The overarching theme to be gleaned from the newest solid waste management report is that the Cayman Islands government is in love with recycling — particularly, vast sections of previous reports.
Report urges $538 million public-private effort on landfill
Declaring that existing waste-management systems are unsustainable, a 201-page draft consultant’s report on the George Town landfill on Monday recommends a $538 million, 25-year public-private partnership to reduce, reuse and recycle.
EDITORIAL – George Town Landfill: Another report … another editorial
We don’t want another report. We want a new landfill.
Landfill update: ‘We now have equipment that works’
Operations at the landfill have improved, preventing fires and making the area safer, the director of Environmental Health told the Finance Committee in Legislative Assembly last week.
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EDITORIAL – On the landfill: No plan, no timetable – and no money
There it is, at last, the white flag of surrender. The treacherous Mount Trashmore has claimed victory over yet another Cayman Islands government administration.
Environmental fund to help pay for tire removal
More than $1 million will be pulled from the government’s Environmental Protection Fund to help pay for removing a mountain of used tires at the George Town Landfill.
EDITORIAL – The Progressives’ unfinished business
The clock is ticking on the Progressives administration. In the coming months, our elected government will be subject to intensified scrutiny as to what it has done — and what it hasn’t.
Editorial – On litter, and litters: Our problems with garbage and dogs
Grand Cayman’s most obnoxious problems — our out-of-control garbage situation and runaway feral dog population — may actually be one and the same.
