Several business persons located in lower Lombard Street are concerned with the random dumping of garbage within the vicinity of their premises. According to Nazar Mohamed of Mohamed’s Enterprise “two years ago the M&CC [Mayor and City Council]’s City Constabulary began to officially dump garbage daily along Lombard and Bugle Streets for further transshipment and disposal at the established dump site [Haags Bosch]. However, as the situation currently stands, the garbage is being dumped continuously without being picked up and disposed of at the dumpsite.”
The current state of Bugle Street.
Among some of the businesses being affected are Mohamed’s Enterprise, Baracara Quarry, Alabama Trading, Cho Chin Enterprise, Herman & Sons Tailoring and Cosmopolitan Trading. “This dump site has taken over Bugle Street, displaced the truck park, and eliminated customer parking in this vicinity. The garbage has now piled up considerably. Consequently, pedestrians and inhabitants of this area who seek their livelihood are exposed to an unsanitary environment and health risks daily. It has become a breeding ground for mosquitoes, rats, snakes…and will trigger infections such as gastro and typhoid,” Mr. Mohamed said. The entrepreneurs have been calling on the M&CC for this situation to be addressed, stating that their businesses pay significant amount of taxes to the M&CC with the expectation that they (M&CC) would be performing their duties. “Mohamed’s Enterprise remits to the M&CC’s City Constabulary the sum of $488,200 annually for Rates and Taxes since 1993 and neighbouring business establishments are paying similar sums. Numerous appeals were made by the business owners to rescind this decision of dumping garbage there. This act is one of the most nonsensical decisions ever implemented by the M&CC’s City Constabulary,” Mohamed stated. Public Relations Officer of the M&CC Royston King in an invited comment stated that the matter was raised at the meeting on Wednesday and the Council is looking into the matter and is “apologizing for the inconvenience caused to the business community”. He said as far as he is aware, the people who have been dumping there should be using the facility of Cevons Waste Management just behind the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) headquarters
