The Government of The Bahamas has allocated $2.5million in its budget for the purchase of ten additional garbage trucks, representing an 86 per cent increase in the number of trucks that will be in service.

Minister of Health and Social Development Dr. the Hon. Hubert Minnis said the new vehicles will increase the total number of garbage trucks from 12 to 22.

“The addition of the ten new trucks combined with the system and the organization that we are putting in place, will allow us to be able to deal with all of the matters of garbage collection appropriately,” Dr. Minnis said.

Dr. Minnis said the need to increase the number of trucks used for garbage collection was based on the fact that while the number of households grew over the past few years there was a decrease in the number of trucks available for garbage collection duties.
He said that in 1990 there were 19 garbage trucks which serviced 67,000 homes. By the year 2000 the number of households requiring garbage collection had increased to 88,000 households and were serviced by 21 trucks.

Dr. Minnis said that as of 2006 there were just 12 trucks to service households in New Providence.

“The point here is that under the former Minister the number of homes increased while the number of trucks decreased,” Dr. Minnis said. “At the same time the Minister responsible for Housing in the former government was all over the airwaves bragging about the number of homes popping up left, right, and centre but at the same time there was no provision for additional trucks.

“The assumption is that if the numbers of homes were increasing at the rate according to the former Minister of Housing and the numbers of trucks were decreasing then obviously there must have been no plan or there was the assumption that these homes would generate no garbage,” Dr. Minnis said.

In the government’s Manifesto 2007 it pledged to provide regular and sustained solid waste collection from residential neighbourhoods.

Minister Minnis said the purchase of the ten new trucks is part of the “national strategic planning” process being utilized by the government that is intended to correct some of the pre-existing deficiencies met in place by the government.

He said the new measures will also help to bring organization to the beautification and maintenance of the country’s parks and verges garbage collection strategies in addition to assisting with rodent and vector control.

Source:
Bahamas Information Services

And they will still throw their chiken bone and the bag they came on and the rest of the stuff they don't want on the ground.

This problem will not be solved until Bahamians take pride in their surroundings.

And they will still throw their chiken bone and the bag they came on and the rest of the stuff they don't want on the ground.
This problem will not be solved until Bahamians take pride in their surroundings.


you should have gone to montagu sunday morning. i think the PLP had their steak out there that saurday. i mean piles of garbage all over the place man. and tourists on tours were there and were pointing at the amount of garbage strewn about right next to the fort. how embarassing! im sorry that i didnt have a camera with me to take the picture and send it to dr minnis or loretta butler. i think we need clean up crews every single day, i mean sundays as well. bahamians and other residences are too stinkin' filthy man!!! :hammer: :hammer: :hammer:

you should have gone to montagu sunday morning. i think the PLP had their steak out there that saurday. i mean piles of garbage all over the place man. and tourists on tours were there and were pointing at the amount of garbage strewn about right next to the fort. how embarassing! im sorry that i didnt have a camera with me to take the picture and send it to dr minnis or loretta butler. i think we need clean up crews every single day, i mean sundays as well. bahamians and other residences are too stinkin' filthy man!!! :hammer: :hammer: :hammer:

Maybe the authorities should require a special permit for groups having parties in lieu of clean up costs. How much does it costs to hire one of the sanitation companies to install one of those large garbage containers and to haul it away? Do we have people employed at public beaches engaged in clean up and the enforcement of litter regulations? This is definitely something that Local Government in Nassau can look at when they get it next year.

Ah, and this government said they plan to outsource garbage pickup? I remember Neymour I think, saying that in a press conference.

Good news is they are picking up my garbage weekly now, at least for the past couple weeks. Bad news is that may mean someone else isn't getting their garbage removed, and I'm also wondering how long this trend will continue.

Ah, and this government said they plan to outsource garbage pickup? I remember Neymour I think, saying that in a press conference.

Thats in conjuction with them still doing pick ups. Private firms will be used when MOH can't.

I recall the Christie administration talking about charging for garbage pickup. I am amazed that garbage pickup is free; We have to pay here, so why are people in New Providence being given a free ride? They need to make sure and attach the fee to a monthly utility bill so that peeps will find it difficult to skimp on paying. What is the new Administration's position on households paying directly for garbage collection?

I recall the Christie administration talking about charging for garbage pickup. I am amazed that garbage pickup is free; We have to pay here, so why are people in New Providence being given a free ride? They need to make sure and attach the fee to a monthly utility bill so that peeps will find it difficult to skimp on paying. What is the new Administration's position on households paying directly for garbage collection?



They don't pay for garbage pickup in Nassau? You jokin'??

No wonder yinna always stewing in filth!

Everywhere in the world you pay for water, sewer and garbage pickup.

Man in Freeport if you don't pay Sanitation Services to come for your garbage, they will drive right past you, then they will send you a nice letter in mail as to why.

They don't pay for garbage pickup in Nassau? You jokin'??
No wonder yinna always stewing in filth!
Everywhere in the world you pay for water, sewer and garbage pickup.
Man in Freeport if you don't pay Sanitation Services to come for your garbage, they will drive right past you, then they will send you a nice letter in mail as to why.

Bahamian people scare of paying taxes...Its like a curse word.

Bahamian people scare of paying taxes...Its like a curse word.



Man, paying fa garbage pickup ein no tax!

On the other island we pay, why yinna in Nassau tink ya exempt??? hehehe!

Where in the world do folks get garbage pickup for free? Every where I've lived I have had to pay for electric, sewer, water and garbage.

No wonder the MOW only does send the garbage truck out every now and again! LOL!!

Good news is they are picking up my garbage weekly now, at least for the past couple weeks. Bad news is that may mean someone else isn't getting their garbage removed, and I'm also wondering how long this trend will continue.
Lucky you buey.They still aint been my way going on five weeks now. :tdown:

Nassau needs Local Government A.S.A.P. On the other islands where there is Local Government, Garbage collection is tendered out to private companies according to Districts. Local Government will solve a lot of Nassau's problems, take the problem from the Ministers and let the Council handle it.

It will work.

Local Government will solve a lot of Nassau's problems, take the problem from the Ministers and let the Council handle it.




The Ministers will not have much to do when they get local government in Nassau, which is why they were resisting it all these years, especially in New Providence. I hear that the folk in Freeport are doing a splendid job.Is that accurate, Freeport people?:)

The Ministers will not have much to do when they get local government in Nassau, which is why they were resisting it all these years, especially in New Providence. I hear that the folk in Freeport are doing a splendid job.Is that accurate, Freeport people?:)



The garbage gets picked up in Freeport BECAUSE WE PAY FOR IT!

I am sorry, but if Nassuvuains want timely garbage pick-up, they need to reach into their pockets like the rest of the Bahamas and the world AND PAY FOR IT! :hammer: