TCI Green Ecological now on the job, Started Work March 5  

Dana Malcolm 

Staff Writer 

#TurksandCaicos, March 9, 2024 – For the first time since 2018, the Providenciales Landfill has a private manager.

Currently, work is in progress at the landfill to put out the dreaded fires, characteristic of the dump, once and for all. Headed by the Environmental Health Department it comes as the government simultaneously hands over management of the facility to TCI Green Ecological Corporation.

The EHD and the Caribbean Development Bank Consultants will both be working to remove all hotspots from the dump for five months, between February and June this year.

“This is indeed a significant milestone, as my government continues to work assiduously in ensuring that the public safety and health concerns of the Wheeland Constituency and the wider community are addressed,” said Kyle Knowles, Wheeland MP.

With that ongoing, the management of the dump for day-to-day activities collection and disposal as well as an overhaul of how garbage is processed locally, will be passed on to TCI Green.

The cooperation, run by brothers Delroy and Richard Gibbs, will focus on the export of trash from the Turks and Caicos and the recycling of any refuse that cannot be exported.

The end goal is to turn what is now a 66-acre dump that burns constantly into a natural area for residents. Knowles reassured us on May 4th that TCI Green was poised and ready to take charge of the landfill on March 5th as their contract mandates.

Both the new contractors and the government have promised that this will be the last that Turks and Caicos Islanders have to endure the stinky large-scale fires that they have dealt with for years.