The clean-up campaign turned corporate as oil explorer CGX Inc on Monday chipped in with plans to clear two nearby trenches in hopes of alleviating the flooding that bedevils that part of the city.
“It is a corporate social responsibility,” Suresh Narine, Co-Chairman of CGX, stated as he announced that CGX will be taking the initiative to clean the gutters and two of the main trenches on New Market Street at a cost of $1.5M. The work will be done on Saturday and Sunday.
“In Georgetown, New Market Street seems to flood first of the many streets that run parallel to it. It floods faster and the water takes longer to recede,” Narine said, explaining that the reason for taking up the project is the inconvenience it causes to their headquarters, which is
