The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

Humans are indeed a queer lot. When we clean up our yard, we have no problem pitching our trash over the fence and into our neighbour’s yard. We then admire our yard and frown at our neighbour for living like a pig.

So it is now, with whomever is renovating what was Hurricane Hole on Paradise Island, and I understand creating a “Super Yacht Marina” with a minimum depth of 12 feet. To achieve this depth of water they are dredging the seabed and guess where they are dumping it all. No, not on Paradise Island, they are trucking it over the Bridge and all the way to the eastern end of New Providence Island and dumping it at what “The Wandering Wolf Child” has described as “The Deadly Stokes Cabana” – formerly the home of the late Stokes Thompson. Now recently demolished.

Whether or not this is a Bahamas Government sanctioned land fill I have no idea, but I am completely opposed to them running these monstrous bloody dump trucks through my “residential only” neighbourhood of The Eastern Road. Twenty yards of wet marl weighs in excess of thirty tons, plus the weight of the Dumper itself. Eastern Road is by any definition a minor road and it was never constructed to support this kind of rolling weight. This is precisely why the Water and Sewerage Corporation is constantly having to repair leaks to the water main.

Since it is a New Day now, if I might use this medium to reach out to Minister Coleby-Davis of Transport and Housing, and sitting MP for Elizabeth, to consider banning the use of residential roadways by commercial vehicles. That would include those monstrous semi-trucks with 20 and 40 foot containers. And if Minister Munroe would agree to having the police enforce such a mandate it would really be a new day.

BRUCE G RAINE

Nassau,

January 29, 2022.