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Saturday, July 12, 2025

Explosives scare at Beetham landfill

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2702 days ago
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The Beetham Land­fill was shut down for most of yes­ter­day, af­ter po­lice were called in to in­ves­ti­gate whether an ex­plo­sive de­vice had been dumped there.

At the end of the ex­er­cise, how­ev­er, the sus­pi­cious pack­age turned out to be a box of fire­works that was dis­card­ed af­ter go­ing past its ex­pi­ra­tion date.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, around 10 am a scav­enger at the fa­cil­i­ty told Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny (SWM­COL) of­fi­cials that he saw a box marked “High­ly Ex­plo­sive” be­ing of­floaded from a garbage truck. Of­fi­cers of the Ex­plo­sive De­tec­tion and Dis­pos­al Unit (ED­DU) and from the T&T De­fence Force (TTDF) De­mo­li­tion Team were dis­patched to in­ves­ti­gate and the land­fill was tem­porar­i­ly closed to the pub­lic.

The pack­age was re­moved and tak­en to the Fire Ser­vice head­quar­ters at Wright­son Road, Port-of-Spain where, it was ex­am­ined.

When a news team vis­it­ed the land­fill around 11 am the gates were closed and dri­vers of garbage trucks were or­dered to turn away. The fire­works were even­tu­al­ly tak­en to the TTDF base in Tuck­er Val­ley, Ch­aguara­mas, where they were dis­posed of.


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