The Local Government Ministry is tendering for heavy-duty equipment including 45 tractors and 45 trailers to ensure the sustainability of its Clean-up Guyana initiative unveiled in this year’s budget.
Minister Norman Whittaker told Stabroek News yesterday that the ministry will be providing equipment to various communities throughout the hinterland. He said that many communities do not have the capabilities to address garbage collection and that part of the Clean-up Guyana campaign was to ensure that sustainability of the project was possible.
An advertisement in yesterday’s Guyana Times invited experienced bidders for the procurement of 45 tractors, 45 tipping trailers, one flat trailer, five mini excavators and one skid steer loader.
The minister stated that the skid steer loader would be used in the city of Georgetown at the three major markets to facilitate