The Mayor and City Coun-cil (M&CC) has embarked on a ‘name and shame’ anti-littering campaign as it steps up its efforts to restore Georgetown’s ‘Garden City’ status.
According to Public Relations Officer of the M&CC Debra Lewis, the council started the ‘name and shame’ campaign on Tuesday to raise awareness and to help keep the city clean. She said there are currently seven Consta-bulary Officers who roam the streets of Georgetown, especially around the Lacytown and Bourda areas, looking for anyone who litters or dumps trash. Persons caught littering are arrested by the officers and taken to City Hall, where they are given a lecture by Lewis and charged.
“We let them know that we have to take their pictures because the council is working so hard to clean the city and it’s counterproductive when people are littering everywhere,” Lewis told Stabroek News yesterday, while stating that the images and names of
