Derelict Vehicles To Be Removed From Nevis
Charlestown, Nevis
October 14, 2008
A number of persons on Nevis have taken advantage of the one month amnesty period for the disposal of derelict and abandoned vehicles but Manager of the Nevis Solid Waste Management Authority Ms. Carlyn Lawrence said the response has been less than satisfactory from garages and auto repair shop owners on the island.
Ms. Lawrence told the Department of Information on October 13, that the Authority had embarked on the campaign for the month of October, in an effort to recycle and export an estimated 1000 abandoned vehicles, in its attempt to keep the island clean and healthy.
“We want people to take advantage of the amnesty period since we relaxed all fees associated with this. We have even relaxed our regulations because normally in order for us to take an abandoned vehicle, we would require the owners to de pollute the vehicle by removing all the fluids and the tires etcetera but we will take the vehicles as is,” she said.
The abandoned vehicles Ms. Lawrence noted had become havens for rodents and mosquitoes and a health hazard.