Questions about pig-rearing nuisance must be answered

May 30, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
I wish to refer to my article which was published in the letter column of Stabroek News dated 3rd March, 2009, in which I posed the undermentioned six questions for the Honourable Minister of Health or the Officer in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency to answer.

(a) Is it permissible for persons to rear pigs whether in small or large numbers in the Residential Area of the Rural or Urban Area, and if so what are the health regulations governing such activity?
(b) Are special areas set aside for offensive trade in the Rural and Urban Areas? If the answer to this question is in the affirmative, then why are farmers not compelled to utilize those areas?
(c) What are the side effects of inhaling pig stench, polluted air or disinfectant on a daily basis?
There was recently the bird flu virus overseas, I do hope there is no pig flu virus coming up.
(d) If a person in the rural or urban area gives an undertaking to clean his pig sty but does not dispose of the excrement and only sprays it every hour of the day, will permission be granted to him to rear pigs adjacent to his neighbour’s dwelling house.
(e) Is it not true that as odour rises in the atmosphere it spreads in all directions?
(f) When officers surveyed certain villages in the Nos. 52-74, Corentyne, Berbice, and created communal reserves, east and west of residential areas, was it meant that pigs and man should live in proximity or for pigs to be in the communal areas?

Unfortunately, the Honourable Minister of Health did not answer any of the above questions, but Mr. Doorga Persaud, Executive Director of the EPA, in the letter column of Stabroek News of 6th March, 2009, gave some vital information for the benefit of the majority of the citizens of Guyana and I quote part of his response in relation to rearing of pigs in rural areas: “The Neighbourhood Democratic Council would need to give its ‘No-Objection’ for anyone to pursue such activity within the jurisdiction of the N.D.C.”

A section of the Environmental Protection Act, No. II of 1996, Part V, Section 19 (1) (a) was also quoted by the Officer, in relation to pollution of the atmosphere and the penalties of not less than $300,000.00 (three hundred thousand dollars) or more than $750,000.00 (seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars) and imprisonment of one year are attached to such activities.

Now that the Swine Flu or Pig Flu has been experienced in the Western Hemisphere and in some countries in the Eastern Hemisphere, I now refer back to part of Paragraph ‘c’ of my article in which I was fearful of a pig flu coming up
I am hoping that the Honourable Minister of Heath will now address the six questions to save this nation from a possible pandemic of Swine Flu or Pig Flu before it is too late.
Aditnarine Persaud

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