DEPUTY City Mayor Ms Patricia Chase-Green predicted doom for the city last Wednesday, especially for the holiday season, when she informed reporters that Georgetown is in for a “very serious health crisis”, and that the municipality is operating with a single garbage truck.

Ms Chase-Green was speaking in Mayor Hamilton Green’s office at City Hall, where a press conference was called to discuss the flooding situation in Georgetown.
Addressing the issue of the ‘Christmas garbage’, Mrs. Chase-Green said the city is worse off now than it has ever been, with an Acting Town Clerk that is adamant. “We cannot handle the garbage situation,” she declared.
According to Mrs Chase-Green, Town Clerk Carol Sooba declared last Monday at the Council’s fortnightly statutory meeting that she would not spend any more money on garbage.
“We have never seen Georgetown in this state,” she said. The problem has to do with adamant officers who are not setting the priorities of the Council right, Chase-Green observed. “She (Sooba) is saving money at the cost of the nation. She refuses to buy trucks, while the garbage continues to pile up.”
Chase-Green said that, for the Christmas season, citizens will have to be competing with cockroaches, flies, rats and mosquitoes, along with several waterborne diseases, as they traverse the roadways. Nevertheless, she expressed hope that Government would soon see it fit to have a qualified Town Clerk installed.

(By Telesha Ramnarine)