A NUMBER of streets that are without proper lighting in Constituency Eight have been identified, and the respective councillors are now working to see how they can provide some more street lighting.

Constituency Councillors Dawn Stewart, Eon Bollers, and Gregory Fraser last Saturday organised a clean-up exercise in the constituency, which takes in the Stabroek, Wortmanville, Werk-en-Rust and Newbury communities.

Approximately 50 persons, inclusive of residents and workers from the Mayor and City Council (M&CC), assembled early Saturday morning at the corner of Camp and D’Urban Streets, in Georgetown, to embark on the massive cleaning exercise.

“We sanitised the area for mosquitoes and rodents,” Councillor Stewart told the Guyana Chronicle on Sunday afternoon. The team cleaned the parapets and found that there were many abandoned vehicles on the road that were encroaching on them. It was also observed that vehicular oil was being dumped in the drains.

The co-operative efforts of employees, councillors and residents, resulted in street drains and yards being sprayed; potential and actual breeding places of mosquitoes being removed; and the weeding of parapets and the cleaning of drains on D’Urban, Princes, Norton, Camp, Creen, Bishop and John streets.

According to Stewart, residents complained that no desilting works were being done, and also that there was bad street lighting in the constituency. As a result of such poor lighting, people often get robbed at nights, the councillor pointed out.

Those areas that are very dark at nights have been identified and the councillors are now looking to see how they can provide some more lighting. According to Stewart, many robberies happen on John and Bishop Streets, between Princes to D’Urban Streets. Princes Street, in the vicinity of the cemetery, has also been identified as a ‘hot spot.’

Stewart expressed that one of her biggest dreams for the constituency is for an elderly care facility to be constructed that would serve like a daycare for senior citizens. “I would give anything to make this into a reality. I am hoping that persons in the community would support by means of donations,” Stewart said, adding that to her, young people and the elderly are the two most neglected groups.

She is also hoping that a community centre for young people can be constructed, and that the avenue on Hadfield Street, between Louisa Row and Camp Street, will be upgraded.