An­oth­er fire has start­ed at the Beetham land­fill. Ac­cord­ing to SWM­COL a bush fire start­ed on the west­ern bound­ary of the land­fill, re­sult­ing in per­pet­u­al smoke over Port-of-Spain.

The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from SWM­COL:

SWM­COL’s Emer­gency Man­age­ment Team takes this op­por­tu­ni­ty to ad­vise that while work­ing to con­trol the ex­ist­ing land­fill fire, a bush fire has start­ed on the west­ern bound­ary of the land­fill, re­sult­ing in per­pet­u­al smoke over Port of Spain.

Con­se­quent­ly, a de­ci­sion was tak­en by man­age­ment to close the Beetham Land­fill fa­cil­i­ty to the gen­er­al pub­lic at this time so re­sources could be fo­cused on treat­ing the cur­rent is­sue. Fur­ther in­for­ma­tion will be pro­vid­ed in a sub­se­quent re­lease as man­age­ment works to­ward solv­ing the cur­rent in­con­ve­nience to the gen­er­al pub­lic.