Labour issues being blamed for garbage problems

Sun, Aug 15th 2010, 11:00 PM

By AVA TURNQUEST

Tribune Staff Reporter

aturnquest@tribunemedia.net

LABOUR issues at the Department of Environmental Health Service are being blamed for the continuing discord over waste collection in Nassau, it was revealed yesterday.

In response to concerns published in The Tribune last week, Environment Minister Earl Deveaux attributed the problems experienced to "supply chain management, scheduling, worker productivity, fleet management, increased volume of garbage, and concerns related to privatisation of the management of the solid waste site and possible privatisation of residential collection."

The minister acknowledged there was a "heightened level of complaints...

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