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Aug 19, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
The Mayor and City Council continues to work acidulously to provide garbage collection and disposal services to all local communities within the City of Georgetown so far, the Council’s Solid Waste Management Department, Public Health Department and teams of technical personnel have been working to ensure the integrity of the natural environment.
Over the last week, the Council collected more than one thousand seven hundred and three (1,703) tons of garbage from all local neighbourhoods in Georgetown. Residents have been cooperating with our collection teams to ensure that they store their garbage in an environmentally friendly manner. This makes it easy for the Council to move swiftly through communities to collect waste.
However, a hand full of residents appears to be bent on hurting the environment by dumping their garbage onto parapets in abandon yards and other reserves. This is really a demonstration of indiscipline, and a lack of care for the environment which sustains all of us. Over the next few weeks, the Council will intensify its efforts in this area of its responsibility by doing the following:
(a) Increase collection in certain areas
(b) Pay more attention to parapet waste
(c) Put in place an aggressive public awareness and public information program in communities
(d) Set up a network, to check, monitor and evaluate the work of departments in local communities
(e) Increase patrols by members of the anti-litter squad in all communities
The Council will continue to do its best in circumstances where it is very short of the requisite resources to manage its wide range of responsibilities to the citizens of Georgetown. Again, we appeal to those, who are vending on the streets, parapets and other reserves to provide appropriate receptacles to dispose of wrappings and other packaging materials used in their daily business. All vendors should make an effort to keep the area, in which they operate clean and tidy at all times.
Debra Lewis
Public Relations Officer
Mayor and City Council

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