City residents to pay $100 for every barrel of garbage removed

From next month

– Town Clerk

By Ramona Luthi

With effect from February 1, 2018, Georgetown residents would be required to pay $100 for every barrel of garbage that is to be removed from their premises.
This was revealed by Town Clerk Royston King, on Thursday during an interview at his office at City Hall, Georgetown.
“Going forward, there are new proposals with respect to solid waste management, including the fact that we are looking and asking all residents within the city to pay a small fee to help us collect domestic waste. The proposal is: residents will be asked to pay $100 per barrel to remove garbage from their premises and to

dispose of it at our landfill site,” he told Guyana Times.
According to King, the money acquired from this initiative would allow the Georgetown Municipality the capacity to sustainably develop the city.
Expressing hope that persons living in the city would be receptive to this new initiative, the Town Clerk declared he was looking forward to their cooperation.
“We are expecting, we anticipate, that residents will cooperate and will support this move,” he said.
In addition, King asserted that the City Council is looking at ways in which to allow villages that do not presently receive such public health care facilities – like Sophia, Greater Georgetown — to experience same.
“We’re also looking at other areas that are not currently receiving such public health services; like, for example, in the area of Sophia. We’re looking at Sophia, and we’re working out an arrangement to also provide public health services in that community, including the collection and disposal of their waste,” he disclosed.