Silvertown calls for relief from garbage crisis

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Garbage lines the streets at Silvertown, Wismar, Linden, where fed-up residents yesterday called on members of the newly-elected Region 10 Regional Democratic Council (RDC) to take immediate action.

“Please y’all do something about this situation here for us, please. Our children can’t go out to play. Mosquitoes and flies taking over our homes; rats and roach kicking skin and the Town Council ain’t coming to do nothing about this situation here at all,” a female resident urged a team of RDC officials that was on a walkabout in the area.

She was one of many residents…..


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