In the face of a threat by the city’s two major garbage collection services to suspend their operations over hundreds of millions owed to them, City Hall has pulled their contracts for some wards in the capital that it hopes to clean on its own.
“I have been directed by the Town Clerk Mr Royston King, of the Georgetown Municipality, to inform you that effective Monday 22nd August 2016, the following services that your company have been providing to the municipality will be suspended until further notice,” reads a correspondence signed by City Hall’s Director of Solid Waste, Walter Narine, to Cevons Waste Management and Puran Brothers Waste Disposal Inc.
As a result, the city would assume responsibility for garbage collection in Alberttown, Queenstown, Cummingsburg, Kingston, East Ruimveldt, North and East La Penitence, the main commercial districts of the capital, Lamaha Springs and Lamaha Park, and North and South Ruimveldt, where the two companies had been providing their services.
