City Hall rebuffs talks of setting up IMC to manage Georgetown

City Mayor Hamilton Green and acting Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Green yesterday rebuffed signals by Presidential Advisor Gail Teixeira that an Interim Management Committee (IMC) should be set up to help clean garbage-coated Georgetown.

Several areas of the once ‘Garden City’ are now strewn or piled up with commercial and domestic waste and in some areas, residents burn refuse on the parapet because of the erratic arrival times of garbage collection trucks.

City Hall has repeatedly complained that it does not have enough cash to pay contracted garbage collectors, but the municipality only