… with water, tools, other equipment to help keep environs clean

THE Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is calling on the business community to donate tools, water, or any other items that can help the municipality keep Georgetown clean, especially those areas in which they operate.

Just recently, Alabama Trading provided a Canter full of tools to aid the City Council in its clean-up efforts along Robbstown, Newtown, Lacytown and Bourda. The tools included five wheelbarrows, two dozen spades, and dozens of sand rakes and cutlasses.

Chung’s Global also donated a quantity of equipment to facilitate the said clean-up ahead of the country’s Independence Day celebrations this weekend.

Town Clerk Royston King has since termed what Alabama did a demonstration of corporate social responsibility that can be emulated by other members of the business community.
“At the moment, Water Street, Robb Street, Regent Street, Croal Street, Charlotte Street and Avenue of the Republic look extremely untidy and present a bad reflection of who we are as Guyanese,” the M&CC said in a statement recently.

“Businesses that are willing to make donations of tools, water and other things must feel free to call the office of the Town Clerk on telephone number 226-7717 and make their contribution towards this collective effort to promote the health and the wellbeing of the City of Georgetown and its populace,” it added.