City Council alarmed at illegal dump sites

Jan 08, 2012 News

The Mayor and City Council has renewed its calls to the business community to stop dumping waste indiscriminately around the city.
Despite public appeals some businesses continue to pay those persons who have veered off the side of societal normalcy to dump their waste anywhere and everywhere.
This notion was expressed by Royston King, Public Relations Officer, who emphasized that from all appearance the waste heaping up around central Georgetown is packaging and allied waste emanated from business places.
King stated, “The council has asked its constabulary to intensify its anti-litter and dumping activities, to arrest, charge and prosecute all litter bugs and those businessmen who facilitate the heaps of garbage by hiring people to dump their stuff.
He said that even with a slight disruption in collection service in some areas, there is still too much rubbish in the streets. More rubbish is thrown on reserves in areas where collection has been on schedule.
For example, in the main business sections in central Georgetown, illegal mini-dump sites are appearing overnight. Yet, the collection of garbage has been on time.
If corporate and other citizens do not cease dumping on reserves then Georgetown would never be elevated to a state of desired beauty, King said. King said that this does not only concern the Council but every citizen who has pride, is environmentally conscious and is patriotic, he added. The cash strapped Council is unable to influence its ability in area of waste management. To gain control of the undesirable garbage situation the Council will need to purchase equipment and pay contractors on time. This cannot be achieved at the moment since the body expenditure is more than revenue received, King said.
He explained that this could be attributed to a number of reasons including the fact that the City has not had a valuation of properties since 1997; the steep increases in the cost of commodities used by council to provide services; the negligence of some property- owners to pay up their taxes; and labour cost.
“The increasing gap between revenue and expenditure is inhibiting the performance of the council. It is the biggest driver of tension between the ability of council to provide services and the expectations and demand of citizens.
“As a result, the council is experiencing the circular problem of a noticeable inability to provide services because of non- payment of rates by property- owners and citizens not paying their rates because of inadequate municipal services,” King asserted.
He said that cognizant of the challenges, the Council purchased several trucks, which are used to provide services to communities in Queenstown, Alberttown, Kingston, South Cummingsburg, and North Cummingsburg.

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