City Council workers were faced yesterday with a gargantuan task as they gathered the litter left along the parade route on Mash Day. The route along Camp Street, Church Street, Irving Street and Vlissengen Road was teeming with Styrofoam cups and boxes, plastic bottles and bags, glass bottles, pieces of costumes, false hair and wigs, and huge amounts of wood, and ply board.
Some of those who operate businesses along the parade route were forced to take on the exercise of cleaning their space early in the day  rather than wait on the municipal crew.
The Guyana Chronicle which conducted several spot checks along Irving Street and Vlissengen Road noticed that workers of the council were hard at work and tried to remove as much garbage as possible from the roadways and parapets.
Yesterday the Guyana Chronicle contacted the City Mayor, Hamilton Green for a comment on the job his workers were doing. The mayor explained that he made a check at the various locations earlier yesterday  morning and was assured that the heads of the various cleaning crews had everything under control. He said that he was given the assurance that by 11:00hrs yesterday most the garbage clearing would have been done.
But the unsightly presence of the amount of garbage that littered the streets ought not to be the case.  Several persons and groups were seen distributing plastic garbage bags to families and other groups of people for
disposal of their garbage.
It is clear that these bags were not used.
Time was when, years ago, when one would pass along the parade route on the way to work around 08:00hrs on February 24, and see pristine and litter-free parapets.