City clean-ups almost halfway – Whittaker

Busy workers at Postel/Stevedore Housing Scheme in September. (Stabroek News file photo)

Community clean-ups in the city under the government’s national ‘Clean-Up My Country’ project are close to 50 per cent completed, Minister of Local Government Norman Whittaker said yesterday.

At a press conference at the Ministry’s boardroom in Kingston, Whittaker said the major canals being cleaned and de-silted are 95 per cent completed. Also works in Le Repentir Cemetery are progressing.

Whittaker was confident that the clean-up project would wrap as