Puran Bros. signs $221M deal to manage dumpsite

Jul 15, 2016 News

From left: Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan, Permanent Secretary Emil McGarrell and contractor Lakenauth Puran

Consultant Samuel Wright

The Ministry of Communities yesterday signed a contract with Puran Brothers Disposal Inc. that will see the entity taking over the Haags Bosch Landfill site.
The contract, which is valued at $221,400,000, was signed in the boardroom of the Haags Bosch dump site at Eccles, East Bank Demerara by Permanent Secretary Emil McGarrell and Managing Director of Puran Brothers Disposal Inc, Lakenauth Puran.
At the contract signing, Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan, stated that the original contract between the government and Brian Tiwarie of BK International was discontinued in December 2015, due to non-compliance with the Operations Management Requirements and the expiration of the Environmental Permit.
That contract was originally slated for the period of 2011 to 2021.
After BK vacated the site, a temporary operator was contracted to manage the waste facility and had been utilizing cell two of the site as a temporary arrangement.
The vacating of the site had allowed the Ministry to commence the procurement process for a new contract to allow another company to take over the operations at the Haags Bosch Landfill.
Head of the Sanitation Management Unit at the Ministry of Communities, Gordon Gilkes said that the duration of the contract with Puran is for 12 months, beginning in July 2016 and continuing until July 2017.
According to Gilkes, the operation at the landfill site is guided by the Operations Service requirements which the contractor (Puran) has to adhere to at all times.
These stipulations include the compacting of waste in order to increase the life, providing daily cover to the waste, observing good health and safety standards, providing adequate equipment to manage the waste, adequate personnel to manage the site, maintaining the facilities on-site that include the administration building, weighing scale and scale house, medical centre, leachate pump stations, internal roads and drainage systems.
Another requirement includes providing fire-fighting facilities while the maintenance of a contingency plan is expected.
The landfill facility is to be opened from 7.00am to 8.00pm Mondays to Saturdays and 8.00am to 2.00pm on Sundays and National holidays.
Puran, at the signing of the contract, stated that his company was committed to ensuring that the facility is transformed into a site which complies with international and environmental standards. He noted that his waste disposal firm will work along with the Ministry of Communities towards enhancing the “aesthetics” in addition to implementing regulations that are in accordance with the relevant health standards.
Solid Waste Director of the Georgetown Municipality, Walter Narine, who was also present at the signing said that he was extremely delighted that new measures were being put in place to ensure the effective disposal and recycling of waste.
The Consultation on the Draft National Solid Waste Management Strategy will be conducted by individual contractor; Samuel Wright.
That contract amounts to $11,888,000 and will run for a period of six months from July 2016 to December 2016.
Consultations will be done in all 10 Administrative Regions with at least two sessions in each region.
A report on the Public Consultations, an updated National Solid Waste Management Strategy, a regional Solid Waste Management Plan and templates for Monitoring and Evaluation of the implementation of the Regional Plans are expected to be delivered to the ministry.
The draft National Solid Waste Management Strategy was developed under the Georgetown Solid Waste Management Programme which was funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Government of Guyana (GOG) with the assistance of an international consultant.

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