THE Interim Management Committee (IMC) of Anna Regina is getting ready to stage another Town Day celebration in August.
Its Chairman, Mr. Toolsie Narine, said that a meeting will be held shortly with all stakeholders and the business community to start discussion and planning for the grand celebration.

Addressing Councilors at their statutory meeting, last week Thursday, Narine said this year’s activity is expected to be much bigger and more colourful than last year’s, which was the first ever Town Day in the Region.
He said the 2013 Town Day was successful and gathered together thousands of people to celebrate the achievements of the Anna Regina township in the commercial centre.
Member of the IMC, Mr. Rajendra Prabhulall has advocated for a clean-up day under the slogan ‘Pick it Up, Essequibo.’
According to him, the activity should be used as a springboard for planning of the Anna Regina Town Day.
He suggested that the business community, the Regional Democratic Council (RDC), the Police, Army, Fire Service, schoolchildren, rice farmers, Government workers, market vendors/stall holders, fishermen, health workers, teachers, housewives and other residents within the town be involved in the exercise and it should be planned in collaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment.
Anna Regina became a town on August 1, 1990 and its first Mayor was the late Etwaria Kumar.

(By Rajendra Prabhulall)