The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has announced a campaign to remove derelict vehicles and debris from city roadsides, sidewalks and parapets.
Vehicles and other materials encumbering the reserves will be collected by the City Council if they are not removed, Town Clerk Royston King was quoted as saying in a press release that was issued on Friday.
“Citizens need to remove their vehicles because the Council will be reclaiming its properties,” King stated, while urging the cooperation of the citizenry.
Although the exercise was due to begin last Friday, Stabroek News was told that no work had started.
The campaign is a collaborative effort between the M&CC and the Ministry of Public Infrastructure and it will continue for the next three weeks. Blocked parapets and entrances to private property will also be looked at, King said, while noting that such encumbrances are unsafe and illegal.
“No citizen has the right to block or hinder access to public spaces …it is the collective property of all citizens through their payment of taxes,” King noted.
In addition, the Town Clerk informed that the placement by private citizens of “no parking” and other signs in city spaces to prevent access by other citizens is illegal and will not be permitted by the Council.
King noted that monitoring of these activities will be increased as he has introduced an initiative to have the Council’s security agents perform more traffic duties as stipulated in the Council’s laws and regulations.
