The Trinidad and To­ba­go Scrap Iron Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTSI­DA) has pledged sup­port for Gov­ern­ment ef­forts to tack­le the dump­ing of waste in wa­ter­cours­es, fol­low­ing re­cent com­ments by Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jear­lean John.

Dur­ing a tour of drains in her Cou­va North con­stituen­cy on Tues­day, John de­scribed il­le­gal dump­ing as a “na­tion­al emer­gency,” say­ing the prac­tice had wors­ened flood­ing and called for ur­gent ac­tion ahead of the rainy sea­son. She said the Gov­ern­ment may ex­pand pub­lic ed­u­ca­tion cam­paigns to com­bat lit­ter­ing and pol­lu­tion.

Re­spond­ing to­day, TTSI­DA wel­comed the Min­is­ter’s state­ments and said it was ready to work with the au­thor­i­ties on clean-up ef­forts and en­vi­ron­men­tal out­reach.