Michelle Loubon

Port-of-Spain May­or Murchi­son Brown says garbage that ac­cu­mu­lates in east Port-of-Spain should be dis­posed of dai­ly. He made this com­ment at the cor­po­ra­tion's statu­to­ry meet­ing at City Hall, Knox Street, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day. Brown said he saw bins piled high with garbage when he toured ar­eas like Gon­za­les, in Bel­mont, on Wednes­day. "The garbage is not clear­ing dai­ly. Around Bel­mont Ju­nior Sec­ondary and Bel­mont Sec­ondary, the bin couldn't go back prop­er­ly."

He said he al­so dis­cussed reg­u­lar garbage dis­pos­al with Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Mar­tin Joseph and se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers. "I can't hear about trac­tors leav­ing the yard late and they have to be back by 3 pm. I told one man you have to be mad. You are not dis­pos­ing of the garbage every day," he said. Brown said the beau­ti­fi­ca­tion of the city has to con­tin­ue. "Peo­ple are call­ing in­to the ra­dio and say­ing it was done for CHOGM (Com­mon­wealth Heads of Gov­ern­ment Con­fer­ence). That is not so. It must be con­tin­ued," he said. Mean­while, Bel­mont coun­cil­lor Pe­ter John re­mind­ed the meet­ing that a lot of work was be­ing done in east Port-of-Spain.

"There is pow­er wash­ing. Tamarind Square is lit. Colum­bus and Spree Si­mon look mar­vel­lous. Work is be­ing done in Gand­hi square. There is no stop­ping the work," he said. Brown al­so thanked both Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Hazel Man­ning and Works Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert for their as­sis­tance in paving roads. "They have been work­ing as­sid­u­ous­ly...they have been paving around Park Street. They have been work­ing to make the burgess­es com­fort­able," he said.