By Jeff Trotman
Linden is developing a new garbage disposal site and though property owners in some communities do not pay rates and taxes, the municipality’s Interim Management Committee (IMC) says it is committed to providing essential services to them.
Orrin Gordon, Chairman of the Linden IMC, made the commitment during a press conference on Tuesday, 3rd June. He said property owners at Block 22, central Amelia’s Ward and some areas of Blue Berry Hill do not pay rates and taxes but in some instances the municipality pays more attention to those areas than in some areas in which the residents pay rates and taxes.
“We took a commitment to serve the entire community,” Gordon said.
Garbage
He pointed out that the municipality has a schedule of the days in which domestic garbage should be picked up in the respective wards of the town. Admitting that the municipality defaults sometimes on the schedule, the IMC Chairman said: “We’ve got to do a better job working with the schedule.”
He said that although a contract had been signed between the Region Ten Democratic Council and Cevons to pick up domestic waste and to develop garbage dumping sites, the Linden IMC “is not bothering with Cevons” and is going ahead in developing a garbage disposal site on about eight acres of land above the Kara Kara dyke.
The Linden municipality currently dumps garbage at Dakoura on the Wismar side of the Demerara River but the Dakoura Creek,