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Jan 12, 2011 Peeping Tom
On Tuesday workers from the City Council carried out a massive sanitization campaign targeting the Tiger bay area and its environs.
During the campaign several drains, canal and parapets in the community were cleaned and disinfectant sprayed. City Hall’s Public Relation Officer Royston King, Deputy Town Clerk Sharon Harry-Munroe and Chief Environmental Health Officer, Kenneth Stephen, were all on site spearheading the exercise.
King told media operatives that the council decided to get all the various departments of the council involved since this is just one of their many new approaches for 2011. He added that the exercise will not only target Tiger Bay but other communities around the city as part of the council’s effort to restore beauty to Georgetown.
Deputy Town Clerk Munroe said that the exercise would see the removal of garbage pile-ups from vacant plots around the city, the placement of garbage bins at strategic points and fogging for mosquitoes and other insects. Munroe, however pointed out that once garbage has been removed from vacant plots around the city, the cost will be attached to the owners’ rates and taxes for the year. She explained that this would be done since it is up to the owners of these empty lands to maintain the area.
Speaking on the health issues, which an untidy environment poses, Stephen said that his team was engaged in discussions with residents of the community on proper health practices. He noted that one of their major concerns in the Tiger Bay area was the lack of proper sanitary facilities.
“We have asked the residents to pay more attention to the dumping of their waste and more so the use of whatever sanitary facility they have available.”
“In this area we are seeing things like fecal matter in drains, in people’s yard and in some cases in very close proximity to places where children dwell,”.
Hence, Stephen said he has been encouraging parents to take their children down to the health centres to have them checked out.
“Some of the children in the area we see have rashes on their skin so we asked that they be taken for medical attention.”
In addition, Stephen said the council would increase patrols in the area to ensure that persons are making use of the bins that are placed there. He further called on the residents to police their own communities.
“We want them to watch out for those who may want to remove the bins for their personal use.”
Meanwhile, the council workers’ attention was also drawn to the heavy build-up of fat in a drain aback of the New Thriving Restaurant.
This, residents say, has been affecting them for some time now and nothing is being done to alleviate the issue.
“We are the ones who have to live in the filth these people leave here, this drain stink and they don’t ever come to clean it,” one resident complained.
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