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Waste Management Director Marcus E. Solomon Out! New Director to be named!

Word reaching our News Centre is that the Director of Waste Management contract of Trinidad and Tobago national Mr Marcus E. Solomon will not be renewed. Photo: Facebook/File
Constant fires at the Pockwood Pond dumpsite are now a thing of the past, thanks to the leadership of former Director of the Department of Waste Management Mr Marcus E. Solomon. Photo: Team of Reporters/File
Constant fires at the Pockwood Pond dumpsite are now a thing of the past, thanks to the leadership of former Director of the Department of Waste Management Mr Marcus E. Solomon. Photo: Team of Reporters/File
Prior to Mr Marcus E. Solomon's tenure, landfill fires at Pockwood Pond were seen almost daily. Photo: Team of Reporters/File
Prior to Mr Marcus E. Solomon's tenure, landfill fires at Pockwood Pond were seen almost daily. Photo: Team of Reporters/File
POCKWOOD POND, Tortola, VI- Word reaching our News Centre is that the Director of Waste Management contract of Trinidad and Tobago national Mr Marcus E. Solomon will not be renewed.

Mr Solomon, who is expected to return to his home country this week, confirmed the end of his tenure in a social media post. He was appointed as Director in 2023 on a two-year contract.

'I made a difference'- Solomon

In his social media post, he spoke about some of his achievements, including the rollout of waste reduction and diversion strategies, the end of subsurface fires, minimising smoke and the flies at waste disposal facilities and the expansion of house-to-house garbage collection.

Mr Solomon also noted that he was able to set up the export of recyclables such as waste oil, scrap metal, derelict vehicles and plastics and negotiate approximately $300,000 in grant/donation funding.

Thanks staff & department for dedication & commitment  

He thanked his staff and the Department of Waste Management for their “dedication and commitment to delivering improved services to the public.

The outgoing Director also noted in his social media post that “despite my departure, I'm leaving confident that this Department is staffed by dedicated, talented individuals committed to preserving 'Nature’s Little Secret’ for future generations”.

The post of Director Waste Management has been advertised, and it’s our understanding that interviews are ongoing and a Virgin Islander is the frontrunner to replace Mr Solomon.

32 Responses to “Waste Management Director Marcus E. Solomon Out! New Director to be named!”

  • DI Resident (14/07/2025, 13:38) Like (47) Dislike (1) Reply
    Thank you Mr Solomon, for ending our torment with the smoke from Pockwood Pond. Best wishes to you and family in your endeavours. I hope government knows what it is doing because if that unhealthy nonsense returns, we will be marching! Forwards ever backwards never!
    • Di (14/07/2025, 17:52) Like (7) Dislike (20) Reply
      It is time to go. We have out own locals for this one.
      • Sure (14/07/2025, 17:59) Like (10) Dislike (7) Reply
        True, like the current DPP
      • OK but .. (14/07/2025, 19:21) Like (24) Dislike (0) Reply
        They beetter be competent and not getting the position on some nepotism sh!t. This gentleman seems as thought he ws able to execute and GET THINGS DONE. I dont give a damn where he is from.
  • Curious (14/07/2025, 13:55) Like (4) Dislike (1) Reply
    You the responsible party for the removal of all those garbage bins?
    • Dirty BVI (14/07/2025, 18:20) Like (7) Dislike (4) Reply
      Thank God they were removed. The entire Territory should be door to door
  • open wide (14/07/2025, 14:18) Like (5) Dislike (11) Reply
    Trni man gone
  • Jim (14/07/2025, 14:26) Like (6) Dislike (15) Reply
    Much displeasure about derilic cars, waste and smoke. Yes they're all legit. So I'm wondering if we can't somehow use the smoke from the incinerator to produce some form of usable energy - steam power - electrical power. Turn derilic metal into something we can export.. Just thinking out loud
    It might be a good project for either/or our high school or college students. There's got to be something positive here and not just complaints.
    All the best.
    • @Jim (15/07/2025, 06:47) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      You for the next management but you see how many people dislike your positive comment. These set of people in Tola that dont know nothing.
      • @@Jim (15/07/2025, 09:53) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
        My god I was thinking the same thing. People dislikes the comment because he is asking that we be solutions oriented and thinking outside the box instead of just complaining . SMH
  • good & bad (14/07/2025, 14:34) Like (5) Dislike (2) Reply
    Good planner with bad people skills. “despite my departure, I'm leaving confident that this Department is staffed by dedicated, talented individuals committed to preserving 'Nature’s Little Secret’ for future generations”
    • People skills are essential (15/07/2025, 10:07) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
      I dont know him but if what ou say is true then he needs to work on those vital skills. If your team is compliant instead of committed because of poor people skills then you dont have a Team. Too many conflate people skills with being soft or weak.
  • local boy (14/07/2025, 14:52) Like (12) Dislike (1) Reply
    The man right wid dis waste ah time gowment
  • Fairness (14/07/2025, 15:04) Like (10) Dislike (9) Reply
    In any business, if your work standards is not up to par, you have to go. If my mother was working for me and her work standards was not up to par, she can no longer work for me and have to go as well. It is not personal. Just because she is my mother I am going to allow her to bring the business down.
    • @Fairness (14/07/2025, 16:51) Like (3) Dislike (3) Reply
      I completely understand and would do the same as well. lol, the person that dislike your comment has not fully translated out of the BUSH as yet or the bush way of thinking.
  • Trucker (14/07/2025, 16:18) Like (23) Dislike (1) Reply
    He did us better than our own, dont mind the haters under this post. Trini you real and them can't take real. The only thing you did bad was mess with Ritter otherwise Trini you work! I know my lil work dem dead now smh
  • waste (14/07/2025, 16:41) Like (2) Dislike (4) Reply
    Reaching the landfill at6:30am only to be told that landfill will be open at 8:30 was a total waste of everything. I hope that is rectified, it is against the very laws of nature. You wake up in the morning and your body demands that you get that $#1+ out of here.
  • DWM (14/07/2025, 16:48) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
    will have some 'acting' person in charge for how many years??
  • Observer (14/07/2025, 17:37) Like (3) Dislike (1) Reply
    He was not the first to export Derelicts vehicles. In fact, he never did a shipment out of the territory. Thei island is covered in derelicts now, nowhere to carry them since he put the storage site next to the main road. If you look the bins are overflowing and garbage on the ground from 10 AM in the morning. And rumors on the street I'm sure everyone heard already. Bye Bye Go Trinidad and do what you all do well.
    • @Obsetver (14/07/2025, 19:10) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
      Speak the truth look at the article and pictures hate the man but speak fact as well. https://bvinews.com/over-700-derelict-vehicles-removed-recently/
  • Bunk (14/07/2025, 18:11) Like (2) Dislike (2) Reply
    Ah boi.. are we ever going to get the incinerator back online??
  • Rubber Duck (14/07/2025, 18:13) Like (3) Dislike (1) Reply
    We all know why he leaving so stop pretending
    • Why duck? (15/07/2025, 10:11) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      Not all of us Duck , but i would like to know. inquiring minds want to know.
  • Warren Buffet (14/07/2025, 20:21) Like (9) Dislike (0) Reply
    A business is only as strong as its weakest link. It won’t matter who is in charge as long as the government has a hand in it, it will fail. If you are unable to make the employees in the company perform their duties, that they are being paid to do, be it for whatever reason …lack of supervision, lack of pay, lack of respect to to do the job because you have the right last name and can’t be fired, the DWM will be a failure. Please for the love of god put a true local in charge of not only this but every other department and when they fail own up to it! Let’s hear the real reason why we can’t clean this place up, set of jokers!
  • What? (14/07/2025, 20:34) Like (1) Dislike (4) Reply
    I can't believe there was actually someone in charge of waste management.
  • HE CAME HERE AND BUILT A COAL PIT (14/07/2025, 21:03) Like (2) Dislike (9) Reply
    HE MET THE INCINERATOR DOWN AND GONE LEFT IT DOWN.....HE DIDNT BRING ANYTHING TO THE TABLE....GOOD RIDDANCE
    • black (15/07/2025, 05:10) Like (1) Dislike (2) Reply

      @ HE CAME HERE AND BUILT A COAL PIT.

      LOL just hold on and get your popcorn ready because when the sh*t hit the fan and that coal pit comes to life, we all will find out what time it is in these islands. 

      • facts (15/07/2025, 10:12) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
        He came and showed them how to build a proper coal pit because the previous management was trying to do the same thing, but did a piss poor job of it...landfill fires daily.LOL
    • BRAD BOYNES (15/07/2025, 08:24) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      @ HE CAME. what have you done for your BVI? Stop being ugly you dam ingrate.
  • mehnknow (14/07/2025, 21:39) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
    thank you
  • WOW (15/07/2025, 08:53) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    Finally i’ll get to keep all i work for now.
  • Trini (15/07/2025, 18:15) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    YOU HAVE BROUGHT OUT THE BVI HATRED FOR OUR CARIBBEAN BROTHERS AND - CALLED XENOPHOBIA / AND AS A TRINI YOU SHOULD NOT BE SUPPRISED , YOU SHOULD HAVE READ THE VIBES LONG TIME AGO , THAT YOU WALKED INTO AN ANTS NEST . NO MATTER HOW GOOD YOU WERE , OR HOW GOOD YOU DID , IT DON'T COUNT - AND THE RESPONCE FROM THOSE WHO ONCE SMILED WITH YOU , SAYS IT ALL • ( WE DO THE SAME THING TO THE WHITE BOYZ AND SOME OF OUR OWN SO CALLED INDIGENOUS VIRGIN ISLANDERS TOO ACCORDING TO THE THEIR LAST NAMES •


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