by Linda Straker
- GSWMA legislation enacted in 1995
- Trevor St Bernard is Chair and Dr Tessa St Cyr appointed Deputy Chair
- Notice in Government Gazette of 9 December 2022 published Board members
As of 2 August 2022, lawyer Trevor St Bernard was appointed by the Dickon Mitchell administration as the chairman of the Grenada Solid Waste Management Authority (GSWMA). Dr Tessa St Cyr who contested as a candidate in the June 2023 General Election was appointed Deputy Chairperson.
A notice in the 9 December 2022 issue of the Government Gazette published the names of the Board. The legislation establishing the GSWMA mandates that the names of all members of the Authority as first constituted and every change in the membership thereof shall be published in the Gazette.
The other members of the Board are Dr Stephen Nimrod, Dr Pemba Braveboy, Andre Worme, Alphonsus Daniel, Lotten Friday, Jerry Enoe and Joseph James.
“The appointment is for a period of three (3) years, with effect from 2nd August, 2022,” said the notice, but not at which Cabinet meeting the appointments were approved or confirmed.
Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell recently disclosed in documents laid in the Parliament that the Expressions of Interest Committee chaired by himself and comprising advisors, transition leads, and the Ministers is responsible for vetting appointments to statutory boards.
The GSWMA is a statutory body currently under the Ministry of the Minister for Climate Resilience, Environment, and Renewable Energy. It is charged with developing the solid waste management facilities and improving the coverage and effectiveness of solid waste storage, collection and disposal facilities in Grenada.
Among the duties and functions of the Authority are to develop all aspects of solid waste management in Grenada with due diligence and efficiency and in conformity with appropriate administrative, technical, managerial, and engineering practices and with due regard to ecological and environmental factors, and shall provide or cause to be provided, promptly as needed, facilities, services and other resources required for solid waste management.
It shall also undertake such research, experiment and operations as may appear to them to be necessary for the improvement of the Solid Waste Management Authority and to control or eliminate any undesirable factors that may affect it and generally to take all such other lawful measures as they may consider likely to assist them in carrying out most effectually the purposes of the GSWMA legislation which was enacted in 1995.
Position for the boys and girls….more nepotism….
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