Some garbage collectors have been demanding money from residents for collection and city councillors yesterday urged swift action to clamp down on the situation.
At the Mayor and City Council’s statutory meeting at City Hall yesterday, PPP Councillor Kamla Devi-Ross said she personally witnessed the act by the contractors, who on Saturday last, at Fifth Street, Alberttown, asked to be paid before handling the residents’ garbage. According to Ross, who lives at Forshaw Street, Queenstown, a short distance from Fifth Street, she heard of what was happening some time between 9.30 am and 10 am on Saturday and went to see what the commotion was about.
“I ask the driver where is he assigned to and he said Quamina Street. When I ask he what he doing here, he start to
