Good Read: The Shame that is the Riverton Dump

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http://rjrnewsonline.com/opinion/the...-riverton-dump

By Dionne Jackson Miller

“Out of the 15 existing dumps in the country, the Riverton site serving the (Kingston Metropolitan Area) KMA is considered the most problematic site from an environmental and social point of view. The site is being operated without any formal operating or development procedures, safety and health protection, or environmental safeguards. As a result, burning, dust, smoke, odor and vermin problems are affecting the surrounding residential areas negatively and require immediate mitigating measures,” said an Inter-American Development Bank project document. The project, approved in 1999, aimed to develop a National Solid Waste Management Programme.

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The Winds Of Change
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7 CommentsPublished:Friday | March 20, 2015
Maybe now that the wind has changed, and the smoke from the burning Riverton dump has gone uptown, we will see an improvement in how Jamaica handles solid waste. As long it is only poor black people who are afflicted by deadly air pollution, nothing will change. Thank God for the winds of change that blew from the dump, uptown to Barbican, Norbrook, Cherry Gardens and Stony Hill.

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/c...0/winds-change