The Cayman Islands Department of Environmental Health was paying staff $100,000 per month in overtime for garbage collection as of late 2017, Health Minister Dwayne Seymour revealed Friday in the Legislative Assembly.
Since the start of this year, those costs have been cut to about $25,000 per month, Mr. Seymour said, after 10 temporary staff members were brought in to assist with “mission critical” areas of the department.
Minister Seymour, responding to concerns from other assembly members about delays in trash retrieval, said problems during June were related to a backlog created during the previous weeks.
“All trucks are currently operational and routes are fully staffed,” Mr. Seymour said, adding that there were some lower than usual levels of employee attendance due to…
