Solid Waste in G/town to increase significantly at Christmas

Nov 10, 2013 News

– MCC advises adequate disposal to avoid health crisis
Solid waste in the city is expected to increase by some 60% during the Christmas season and as such the Mayor and City Council is advising that the general public take precautionary measures to avoid a health pandemic in the city.
“As the Christmas season approaches there will be an increase of garbage circulating in the city… We have asked people to purchase containers to dispose rubbish, to sprinkle disinfectant on their rubbish and to ensure that they secure the garbage containers so that it will not be exposed to vermin, dogs or what we refer to as human scavengers,” Georgetown Mayor, Hamilton Green noted at a recent press conference .
Several weeks ago, Town Clerk (Ag) Carol Ryan- Sooba terminated the contracts of Cevon’s Waste Management and Dartmouth Skips, two waste disposal entities which were employed by the Council to assist in the collection of garbage around the city. This move by the Town Clerk (Ag) resulted in a buildup of garbage in several parts of the city.
Describing that action by the Town Clerk as “penny wise and pound foolish” the Mayor proposed to the Council that “the most sensible thing to do is to mobilize all the capacity available in the city,” to deal with the growing garbage situation.
“The actions of Town Clerk were premature but what is also worrisome to us as is expected, is that certain agencies within the Central Government have come to the aid of the Town Clerk. However, we know that the aggregate cost of that operation is more than what would have been paid to Cevons and Dartmouth contractors.”
In an earlier press conference, Sooba had noted that the Council had acquired aid from the Ministry of Local Government to handle difficult situations of garbage in the city.
“We had acquired the help of the Local Government Ministry to purchase 20 of those large bins, which will be placed at strategic points around the city… we have purchased some and recently acquired a cheque for $1.6 million to purchase additional bins.”
Sooba explained “the management of the two main markets and the contiguous areas under the now terminated contractors cost the council, in excess of $40 million per year.”
“We had numerous complaints and we could not continue to expend so much money, when people, particularly Mayor and City Council workers were not allowed to throw their garbage into those compactors belonging to Cevons Waste and Dartmouth Skips.”
“You would be surprised to know that at Stabroek ,we were paying all those millions to have garbage thrown into those compactors, compacted and taken away…the contract states that contractors are to clear the markets and the contiguous areas of the garbage, instead it was the council workers, who were doing the work…. People even had to pay additional money to have their waste thrown into the compactors; those were some of our complaints.”
She noted that government subvention made provision for the Council to acquire additional equipment to manage the garbage.
“Today, the Bourda compactors is in operation to remove 25 tons of compacted garbage per trip, and in few weeks from now the Stabroek Market compactor will be hooked to electricity from GPL and that too will be in operation.”
The Town Clerk (Ag) says that the Local Government Ministry is on board, and every effort is being made to combat the issue of solid waste around the city.

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