![]() “We’re still doing the numbers, but at this time I can tell you that we’ve spent over $200 million,” he said. KIW, which was formed in 1908, acted mostly as a support service to the sugar industry.ĭabdoub says Tools invested its own funds in upgrading the complex and is looking towards a medium-term horizon for payback on the trucking venture. The latter company came into ownership of the commercial complex on its acquisition of KIW International from the Jamaican Government for $57 million. Tools Hardware & Equipment, two years ago, purchased the KIW complex at 138-148 Spanish Town Road, Kingston, from Jamaican Teas Limited. “We have a very good partnership with Sinotruk, they’ve extended credit to us and they are giving the necessary technical support,” he said. We did our research and settled on Sinotruk,” he told the F inancial Gleaner. The Dong Feng trucks that we got did not help at all, to say the least. “Years ago, I, along with other family businesses had a fleet of vehicles, and we thought that if we’re going to be doing servicing, and so on, why not get one brand. Through its trucking division, Tools Hardware is setting up an 18-bay service centre at the former KIW complex in Kingston and will be expanding that to 36 bays over the next two years.ĭabdoub says 26 Sinotruks have already been consigned to a company in the mining industry, 22 have otherwise been sold, and more are on order for delivery in April. The exclusive dealership is to open officially in May, says head of Tools Hardware Jalil Dabdoub, but is already selling units. It is absolutely important that the clean-up projects be visible and be meaningful,” said Holness.CHINA’S THIRD-LARGEST truck manufacturer, state-owned Sinotruk, has entered the Jamaican market, in partnership with Tools Hardware & Equipment Limited. “We cannot be celebrating our 60th anniversary and the country is not clean, so resources have been made available to MPs at the parish level and to the NSWMA. ![]() The prime minister also instructed the members of parliament (MP] in attendance to prioritise garbage clean-up in their respective divisions ahead of Jamaica’s 60th annual Independence celebration. “We are now in the final stages of developing a new framework for waste management in Jamaica which will see the introduction of waste-to-energy, meaning we are now going to be able, once this is implemented, to convert the waste that we see into electricity, and in the coming weeks we will be speaking about how we are going to treat with that.” ![]() “This year we have 50 trucks coming, they are on order, and hopefully you will start to see some coming in before the year is out, and that will help in the collection of waste,” Holness added. To take the funds and put it into the management of COVID-19 meant that the 100 trucks we had on order, we just couldn’t do it (complete the purchase),” Holness told the meeting. “We have bought and brought in new trucks, but it was just not enough, and last year we should have brought in another set, 100 trucks, but the resources that were dedicated to that had to be diverted into the pandemic management. The issue of waste management has been thorny for some municipal corporations as well, with the St James Municipal Corporation constantly fighting to address local incidents of illicit dumping and the St Catherine Municipal Corporation taking the NSWMA to task for not collecting waste in the Spanish Town area. Garbage collection has been a recurring source of contention for residents across Jamaica, with some communities complaining that the NSWMA has been derelict in its duty to collect waste in a timely manner. ![]() “From a high level that is where we are, and it has taken far too long, as I announced we would be doing this in 2016 and we are just at the point where we will be able to make the practical announcement,” he continued. The NSWMA will, therefore, focus on its real role, which is that of regulator,” he added. “You are also going to hear about the divestment of the collection of garbage, which will mean you will now be bringing in private sector know-how and private sector management to collect garbage. “I gather there was a fire at Riverton City which was brought under control very quickly, but in our 60th year (of Independence) we will be able to say that it is our intention to decommission the Riverton City dump, and you are going to be hearing more about that,” said Holness. Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters. ![]()
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