Bridgetown.
Opposition Senator Kerrie Symmonds says Minister of the Environment and Drainage Dr Denis Lowe, should show the licence transfering the ownership of the Bagatelle Metal Dump within 24 hours or resign.
Earlier this week the Town & COuntry planning Department halted operation at the metal dump which is located at Bagatelle, St Thomas, which recently aquired by prominent businessman Andrew Bynoe who told the press, his brother Paul who operates a recyling plant and will be transffering his business to the metal dump.
Bynoe the managing director of Emerald City and Carlton & A1 Supermarkets comfirmed to the press that Government had transferred the ownership of the Bagattele dump to him as part payment for his land at River By, St Lucy which has been used as a public picnic spot for several years.
Senator Symmonds, the former Member of Parliament for St James South, the constituency where the dump is located is calling on Lowe to explain the circumstances in which land vested in the crown has been disposed of and is used for fresh purposes.
"If the transfer was done by way of a licence, then I am calling on the minister to publicly sate to whom the licence was granted, the purpose for which it was granted and when it was granted", says Symmonds.
He added the only way the minister could have permitted the land transfer was through the approval of Parliament and this was not done.
Government officials have so far been tight- lipped about the land deal.
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