EACH day the city seems to sink a bit more beneath the weight of the endless garbage piles contiguous to human habitats and the resultant unbearable stench that infiltrates our senses.This is a national tragedy of unmanageable proportions, and one which indicts, not merely the Mayor and City Council, but also the citizens of Georgetown, since the contributory factors responsible for such a situation is a complete disrespect of the city’s by-laws, the environment, and inevitably the well-being of the citizens themselves.

The deleterious state of our once pristine garden city has been the subject of much criticism of the inept management of City Hall as it relates to the capital’s sanitation and other allied necessities.

The unhygienic practices of dumping garbage at any convenient spot has sadly become a part of the national psyche, and the health risks that this habit poses makes it imperative that it ceases because of the threat of an epidemic outbreak.

Unless and until the city’s by-laws are enforced, the indiscriminate and unconscionable dumping of garbage will continue to desecrate the city with endless quantities of trash that most often end up in waterways, which contributes immensely to flooding of the city when rain falls.

Despite massive injections of funds by Central Government for clean-up campaigns of the city, Georgetown will continue to remain the ‘garbage city’ unless the inept Mayor and City Councillors are replaced – either by an interim management committee or through local government elections.