City unable to handle growing garbage crisis

Garbage piled up outside Stabroek Market in the vicinity of the Timehri Bus Park. (Arian Browne photo)

As the city grapples with another garbage crisis, Solid Waste Director Walter Narine yesterday said that his department is not properly equipped to handle the situation, which is being partly blamed on the Town Clerk’s decision to sack two collection services.

“With regard to the question if the department is equipped to handle the garbage situation at the Stabroek Market, my answer is no. What I would like is that at the end of today’s meeting we have some solid recommendations,” Narine said at the Mayor and City Council’s statutory meeting yesterday.

Narine said he is working with only two trucks, and this is not sufficient to execute the work properly. “I asked the council to