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City mechanic fined for dumping derelict vehicles on Govt reserve
Owing to its ongoing campaign to enforce penalties on defaulters for littering, the monitoring and enforcement litter unit, attached to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has taken legal action against one city businessman, for the alleged dumping of derelict motor vehicles on a Government reserve.
Derelict motor vehicles dumped on Government reserve along John and Middleton Streets.
The action is as a result of a formal complaint being made to the Litter Unit by a concerned resident of Campbellville, Georgetown.
As a result, the alleged polluter, a mechanic by profession, who operates a business at John and Middleton Streets, Campbellville, was contacted by the department on May 16, 2014.
Reports suggest that the mechanic took full responsibility for placing four derelict vehicles on the Government reserve at the said location.
He was then notified of the litter regulations of the Environmental Protection Act and the various fines attached to non-compliance.
The unit thereafter issued two (2) clean up orders and one (1) litter removal order to the defaulter as a result of him not fully complying with the aforementioned regulations. The orders were issued between May 16 and July 13, 2014. More so, photographs were taken of the location and derelict vehicles dumped along the road.
However, during a subsequent visit to the business place it was observed that the said notices were not fully complied with and as a consequence he was charged for failing to comply with the clean up order and failing to comply with the litter removal order of the Environmental Protection Act of 1996.
Earlier this week, the businessman appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, where he pleaded not guilty to charges related to non- compliance of sections of the Environmental Protection Act. He was placed on $ 10,000 bail and ordered to return on July, 29, 2014 for trial.
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