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City Hall orders day care centre closed

Jul 22, 2012 News

– cites health concerns

Citing health concerns, the Mayor and City Council has ordered the closure of the J.O.S Play Land and Day Care Centre in Aubrey Barker Street, South Ruimveldt Gardens. In a notice addressed to the owner of the property, the Council stated that the section that was being used as a day care centre was “of such construction and in such a state as to be a nuisance and injurious to health.”
The notice also stated that the facility had inadequate ventilation, was poorly lit and was overcrowded.
The manager of the day care centre has to close the facility within 14 days of receiving the notice.
The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) mounted an investigation into conditions at the day care centre, located at Lot 455 Aubrey Barker Street, South Ruimveldt Gardens, Georgetown, following complaints that the health of children attending the facility were at risk.
The centre, located in a bottom flat, was without electricity and has two doors but no windows. Kaieteur News understands that 25 to 30 children attend the centre.
M&CC Health Inspector, Kenneth Stevens told Kaieteur News that an inspection revealed that the environment is unsuitable for the running of such a facility.
The centre has reportedly been without electricity for more than a month.
The landlord, Neville Wray, had described the environment as “dangerous and unhealthy for children.”
“In there is hot, hot and it is very dark, because there is no window. It got one door at the back and one at the front, that’s all,” he said.
Wray explained that when he rented the apartment to a female tenant, it was designed for an internet café, but he eventually rented it to her with a concession of 14 months.
“I told her that I will rent her the place, and that I will give her a 14-month concession so that she could make the relevant adjustments to make the children comfortable, but it’s almost three years and all she did was to knock out a piece of wall and make a door and she is charging between $5,000 to $7,0003  Wray claimed.
A City Council official told Kaieteur News that the M&CC does not issue any registration letters to Day Care operators.
“The way this country is going right now, a person can just gather couple children and start a day care.”

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