Guyana Water Incorpo-rated (GWI) has declared that the recurring problem of overflowing sewage at the Georgetown Magis-trates’ Courts was caused by prisoners depositing items other than waste in the toilets.
GWI spokesman Timothy Austin told Stabroek News that the company’s sanitation department has visited the courts complex three times within the last two weeks to clear the clogged sewerage system. He explained that the system was built to facilitate only waste products but that whilst unclogging it workers have found paraphernalia, including underwear, cardboard, cloth and a pen knife. The discovery of the pen knife, he noted, was very disturbing as these items would have had to have been in the possession of prisoners.
According to Austin, the administrators of the court were