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Police investigating city’s ‘not working’ garbage trucks
As investigations continue at the Mayor and City Council (M&CC), police are now turning their attention to six garbage trucks given to the council last year by the Ministry of Local Government but are not working.
The council reportedly has only one working garbage truck and a tractor to fulfill its mandate to maintain a garbage free Georgetown while the six trucks are parked.
Two of the six garbage trucks handed over to the M&CC last by government are now parked under questionable circumstances.
A probe which was launched into the affairs of the council in March of this year, by Ramon Gaskin, on behalf of a special committee appointed by government, revealed that the trucks were “deliberately” parked so that private companies could be contracted for jobs.
It is believed senior members of the Council were receiving a kick back.
A section of the report that came from the Gaskin report said that many of the documents in relation to the payments for services of private trucks were “unavailable for inspection.”
Further the report stated that “many payments were made in January 2012 in respect of payments for the rental of trucks in July and August 2011. It is not clear why a contractor would provide a service in July 2011 and be paid in January 2012.”
Gaskin went further to report that “It is also not absolutely certain that such a service was ever provided. There is no way of knowing in 2012 what truck was rented in 2011.”
Over a month ago, six senior officials were sent on vacation leave to facilitate investigations into the allegation made in Gaskin’s report.
The report stemmed from a request made by Keith Burrowes, head of the investigating committee, to enquire into the state of implementation of the various recommendations made almost three years ago.
Meanwhile, the implementation committee in collaboration with M&CC has, last Saturday, launched a cleanup campaign around the city.
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