The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) yesterday expressed dissatisfaction with the manner in which some citizens keep their immediate surroundings saying that some are kept in a manner so as to be a nuisance to neighbours and also in direct contravention to the public health regulations.
According to the M&CC as a result requisite notices will be dispatched to several citizens from the environmental and health department informing them of being in contravention of the Public Health Ordinance, Chapter 145.
The release listed conditions such as overhanging trees, defective roof gutters, overgrowths, bushes and long-grasses, absence of water closet, and the rearing of animals (eg goats, chickens and pigs) as being in contravention of law and a nuisance to neighbours.
Areas where this takes place are Sophia, Charlestown, Alboystown, Meadowbrook, and Turkeyen.
“An un-kept yard is not only an environmental contravention but it also compromises the health of those who dwell there-in,” the release said.
It added that the council has noted that some citizens have embarked on the activity of rearing large amounts of animals on their premises for commercial purposes. Some of those premises are very dirty and the odour that emanates is very offensive. The M&CC said it cannot encourage such activities and persons who are thus engaged must desist from doing so as the council will have no other alternative than to initiate actions to abate “such existing nuisances.”
