Linden Mayor Sharma Solomon has called for the immediate closure of the uncapped Nooitgedacht access road in view of concerns over new findings of unsafe levels of arsenic, zinc, nickel, and chromium there.
At the statutory meeting of the Linden Mayor and Town Council (LMTC) on September 4th, 2024, Town Clerk Lennox Gasper was tasked with sending correspondence to Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill to make him aware of this. This was not done. Gasper is on record saying, “Correspondence was not sent, however, I did engage the minister.”
Minister Edghill denied this before a meeting with stakeholders on October 12th,2024. “Let me be clear, this is the first time I’m hearing of this. So nobody could say I knew about it and didn’t respond,” Edghill said.