The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has issued a call to the citizens to form self-help groups to clean up their respective communities for the upcoming Independence celebrations.
According to a press release from the M&CC, an appeal was sent out “to all citizens to organise themselves into groups and clean up their communities now for the independence celebrations.” The effort “should include cleaning of the parapets and frontages, cleaning of the surface drains and sprucing up of their immediate surroundings.” A short-term plan is being drafted, the release said, to do substantial works in all communities in the city which would entail stakeholders meetings, establishing community development groups, environmental awareness and education and awards to model neighbourhoods. Further, the Council believes the clean-up “should be a community effort and that all residents should participate in it. With only a few days left before Guyana celebrates its 49th Independence Anniversary, citizens must work together now to make Georgetown clean and tidy.”
It is the Council’s hope that, “this collective effort would improve the general aesthetics of the city,” the release said, in a bid to “work together to advance our capital with pride and glory.”
