CHAIRMAN of Region 2, Mr. Parmanand Persaud is calling on Essequibians to keep their environment clean and healthy. The Chairman, in a recent appeal, said when the environment is clean and healthy, visitors will speak well about the region, which is considered to be the cleanest among the ten administration regions in the country.

Mr. Persaud is also calling on Essequibo Coast residents to make maximum use of the Puran’s Brothers garbage service. He said persons must not dump garbage in drainage trenches and along the road and street shoulders.
He noted that the Government recently spent millions of dollars under the ‘Clean-up My Country’ exercise to remove tons of solid waste from across the region to make the environment healthy.
Meanwhile, the Chairman called attention to the practice of some persons who throw plastic drink bottles, paper bags and fruit skins unto the public road as they travel along in their vehicles.

He condemned the practice and called on all Essequibians as well as visitors to desist from this bad practice.

Persaud is also calling on persons, especially in Anna Regina, to stop dumping garbage along the shoulders of the road leading to the Mainstay holiday resort and to Tapakuma, Lima Sands and McNabb.
He noted that the Charity area had been cleaned up under the ‘Clean-up My Country’ campaign, but a recent visit to the area had revealed that business operators, vendors and residents have again started to dump garbage in a very careless manner along the road shoulders, drainage trenches and in the Pomeroon River.
Meanwhile, RDC Councillor who represents the Pomeroon, Ms. Vilma Da Silva, has called several times at meetings of the Regional Democratic Council for the shabby stalls along the public road at Charity to be removed and for a triple-decker market to be constructed so vendors can have a decent and healthy environment to vend.

She maintained that if this is done, the Charity area which has potential for great tourism will have a clean and healthy environment. (Rajendra Prabhulall)