MAYOR Hamilton Green has attributed the lack of equipment, needed to clean drains and blocked outlets, for the regular flooding of Georgetown. 
Speaking at a City Hall media conference, last Friday, he said one of the major issues affecting the City is floods and the Council is doing everything in its authority to resolve that matter.
Mr. Green explained that the municipality is unable to, effectively, clear the drains, since it does not possess the things necessary to do so and, as such, the work is left and nothing is being done and more and more floods occur on a daily basis.
He stated, further, that, when the workers clean the drains, they are unable to dispose of the mud, dirt and, sometime garbage, taken out, because the Council does not have trucks, although, only a few months ago, Minister within the Ministry of Local Government, Mr. Norman Whittaker had handed over to the municipality a garbage truck and two compactors.
Additionally, Green called for styrofoam objects to be banned, as they clog the drains and interfere with the Council’s work.

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caption – One of the drains in the City that have not been cleaned by the council for so long that grass has grown and the drain is barely distinguishable from the parapet. Additionally, the grass has grown so thickly in the drain, it is almost impossible for the water to flow through as it is also blocked with garbage entangled with the weeds