Bridgetown.
Member of Parliament (MP) for St James Central Kerrie Symmonds is happy that B’s Metal Recycling Plant has abandon plans to use the Bagatelle, St Thomas site as its metal dump.
Symmonds, the MP for the area, told the press that residents can now breathe and sleep a lot easier.
“I feel a sense of vindication that is understandably shared by residents of Bagatelle, Hoyte’s Village, King’s Village, Prior Park and other surrounding districts which stood potentially to be affected by way of environmental fallout from the B’s recycling facility,” he said.
Last year, he and fellow attorney Gregory Nicholls filed an injunction in the High Court representing six residents of Hoyte’s Village to seek judicial review of a decision made by Cabinet to allow B’s Recycling to operate its metal recycling plant at the controversial St Thomas site.
Over the weekend, businessman Paul Bynoe, the managing director of B's Recycling removed all his equipment from Bagatelle, including a state of the art million dollar metal shredder which had been lying idle for almost a year.
A news release issued in yesterday's print media stated that the scrap metal yard may be relocated to Vaucluse, also in St Thomas.
