City Hall gets assistance for enhancement works

Jun 27, 2009 News

– warns Saffon Street vendors to cease operation

In its quest to garner corporate assistance to restore Le Repentir Cemetery, the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) has been able to solicit the committed support of a few business entities.
This is according to Public Relations Officer, Royston King, yesterday.
And the assistance comes as part of the municipality’s call for a restoration fund to help finance the ongoing enhancement work at the burial facility.
King said that as of yesterday, at least four companies have given their commitment to help their cause.
And already support has been forthcoming from Woode Phillips of Alabama Tradings.
According to King, Phillips has provided the municipality with spares to facilitate the repairs of two trucks, brush cutters, files, spades and wheel barrows, all to the value of about $250,000.
Michael Brassington of Brassonic Super Centre told this newspaper yesterday that he was set to procure a chain saw to aid the works and other materials also amounting to about $250,000.
In addition to the works at the cemetery, the municipality drainage works will also be boosted with support from Brian Tiwari of BK International.
Tiwari has promised to provide brush cutters and has signalled its intent to lend the entity two power saws, two excavators and two trucks over a six weeks period.
King said that the management of R and R International has also given assurance to assist with drainage works and the enhancement of the cemetery.
“The assistance from these companies would allow council to do much more in restoring the cemetery and improving condition in Georgetown.”
According to King, the Public Relations Department and the City Engineers Department are working closely to solicit the assistance and ultimately restore the cemetery which has over the years yearned for maintenance works.
King said that the efforts by prisoners to clear sections of the cemetery has already attracted the praise of citizens both here and abroad, who are anxious to see the facility fully restored.
The need for support for the restoration of the cemetery was first conceptualised by an Advisory Committee which was formulated to guide the restoration process.
King said that suggestions were made to solicit financial support of business entities and individuals, but noted that assistance in the form of kind is even more preferred.
“People will be allowed to participate in whatever way and take ownership of what we are doing. We are asking citizens to come on board.”
King also disclosed that as part of the municipality’s efforts to ensure that the bylaws are adhered to in the city, vendors who usually ply their trade on Saffon Street next to the Albouystown Market, as of yesterday, are prohibited from engaging such practices.
He pointed out that the municipality is hoping that the word will be passed unto those persons who travel from out-of-town to the market area on Sunday to participate in vending activities, even as he cautioned that they will not be allowed to vend there until further notice.

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