Strict enforcement measures coming soon to keep city clean – Indar

In light of the Government’s focus on maintaining a clean and healthy environment, Minister within the Public Works Ministry, Deodat Indar, has underscored that strict enforcement measures would soon be implemented to curb the improper disposal of garbage around the capital city.
Minister Indar made this disclosure as he addressed several representatives of business support organisations at the Private Sector Commission’s Headquarters last Friday, where he told them that businesses have been found to be one of the most culpable sections of society in the removal of waste material.
“This is not [just] normal garbage, this is industrial garbage. This is garbage that is construction waste,” the minister is quoted as saying in a DPI report.
Indar, who is also Chairman of the National Enhancement Committee (NEC), said it has come to his attention that commercial operations are indiscriminately disposing of their garbage by paying vagrants to get rid of it in improper and unhealthy ways.
The minister disclosed that the NEC is obtaining video and photographic evidence of those people breaking the law, and he said this would kickstart a vigorous campaign to charge those who continue to flout the anti-littering regulations.
“I have video and pictures in my phone of them coming out and dumping their garbage in the streets…We’re going to go on a campaign where the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] now will get involved, and the police and everybody else, to make sure that we charge people and we deal with them condignly,” the NEC chair asserted.
On August 17, the NEC, in collaboration with the private sector and other volunteer organisations, would be executing its 9th National Cleanup Exercise. Several areas would be targeted, including the Seawall, Stabroek Market area, Dennis Street, Linden, Mabaruma, and New Amsterdam.
Also in attendance at the meeting were City Councillors Don Singh and Steven Jacobs; representatives of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA); and President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Kester Hutson.