Trinidad is always described as a lush green island of considerable beauty but has its many problems. Among these is the failure to properly manage clinical waste disposal, which is tossed out of the hospitals to sit in ‘the yard’ is the vain hope that somehow it might just disappear.

The management of clinical wastes in island and other remote communities has been a particular specialty for Blenkharn Environmental. Satisfactory solutions are almost always available, often utilising existing resources, but using them properly.

It is reported that the Environmental Management Authority (EMA) has begun supervising the clean-up of hazardous medical waste that had been dumped and buried in a residential area in Freeport. It belongs to Quantum Disposal and Recycling Services Ltd, a company owned by Kelvin Ramnath Jr, son of late EMA chairman Kelvin Ramnath, who died last July.

This rather embarrassing circumstance highlights a profound lack of regulation, and is no doubt embarrassing for the EMA. but will anything really change?

http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2013-05-30/ema-cleaning-medical-dump-Freeport

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/There-was-a-break-in-209437941.html