Mount Trashmore is a dump in George Town but it is a waste management facility in Bodden Town.

If Government had plenty of money we would not even be discussing this. The Waste to Energy option is the only solution to keeping the dump where it is at the moment. Even that is not a complete solution as the average recycling from such a facility like the Wheelabrator is 50% although this company says their goal is 60%. Goals are hard to score.

Despite what MLA’s Mark Scotland and Dwayne Seymour have publically stated that the dump in George Town will not be a dump in Bodden Town I cannot find it in my heart to actually believe they believe it. If the situation was reversed and the PPM was in power, and had proposed this same scenario, would these two MLA’s be shouting the same tune? Perhaps someone could ask them that.

It was not surprising they tried to shift the blame to the PPM for failing to address the landfill problem but they are way off the mark when they added, “the opposition and the Independent member had the audacity to use a serious issue related to the welfare of all Caymanians as a political football for political mileage.”

The main opposition to the dump, sorry I mean the waste management facility, is NON-POLITICAL!! It comes from your own constituents. The people you are supposed to represent. And worse, you hide like frightened rabbits from meeting with them face to face.

It is not only governmental bodies that are silent. Silence is the name of the game in most large corporations. We don’t hear electricity. It is silent. Caribbean Utilities Company (CUC), Grand Cayman’s only supplier of electricity is also silent. On 28th January, 2011 there was an explosion at their works on North Sound Road. Two men were sent to hospital. CUC announced they would be conducting an investigation into what had happened and would produce “a comprehensive report”.

When?

One of the men taken to hospital, Kurt Scott, had to be flown off island with severe burns. There has been silence from CUC about his condition.

Why?

The Department of Employment Relations told another news media they had heard nothing new from CUC. “We too are anxiously awaiting their report on this tragic accident,” said their Acting Director Jennifer Smith.

A simple question to CUC asking them what measures have been taken, if any, to ensure a similar accident doesn’t happen again met with …….

Silence.

Silence does not mean the problem will go away but it often means it will be forgotten. The media is here to make sure it will not.