M&CC to crackdown on unkempt yards, animal rearing

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) yesterday expressed dissatisfaction with the manner in which some citizens keep their immediate surroundings saying that some are kept in a manner so as to be a nuisance to neighbours and also in direct contravention to the public health regulations.

According to the M&CC as a result requisite notices will be dispatched to several citizens from the environmental and health department informing them of being in contravention of the Public Health Ordinance, Chapter 145.

The release listed conditions such as overhanging trees, defective roof gutters, overgrowths, bushes and long-grasses, absence of water closet, and the