The Georgetown Mayor and City Council, (M&CC) will be moving to take control of a number of vacant lots across the city, especially if these have become environmental hazards.The first exercise has been conducted on Main Street, Cummingsburg, Georgetown.Kaieteur News understands that the decision to seize empty lots was taken after the Council observed that there are a number of unattended spaces in different wards of Georgetown.According to information disseminated by M&CC’s Public Relations Department,NFL Jerseys China, the unattended areas have become eye sores. They are often covered with overgrowth and weeds.The overgrown lands provide an ideal setting for reptiles and mosquitoes to live.?? In some cases, residents have converted these lots to communal dump sites. Additionally,Cheap NFL Jerseys Supply, the Council noted that the environment is said to be a haven for the criminal minded to pounce on unsuspecting citizens. As such,Jerseys Wholesale, residents who live nearby are forced to clear the lots themselves due to the environmental and safety threats.“A yard that is unkept is a contravention of the Public Heath Ordinance,” the statement outlined.According to the Public Health Ordinance Chapter 145; the owner of all lots shall keep them free from overgrowth of bush, weeds and long grasses.Further, the Public Health Ordinance Chapter 145 section 66 (-1) states that “The owner and occupier of any premises shall at all times keep his premises free from refuse tins, bottles coconut shells, calabashes,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, bush, weeds and long grass. Keep trimmed,Jerseys From China, within reasonable number to the satisfaction of the local sanitary authority and free from the breeding or harbouring of mosquitoes, all fruit or other trees, shrubs, hedges and plants of the like nature”.The Council has commenced cleaning those lands. This would add to the cost incurred to the rate of such property owners.If the owner cannot be located the Municipality would be approaching the Courts to seek legal intervention in the matter.Also in cases when the landlords for the lots cannot be found, the Council will take necessary action to safe guard the integrity of the environment.Meanwhile,NBA Jerseys Outlet Shop, the Georgetown M&CC will be continuing efforts to repossess lands belonging to the Municipality. The committee has since reclaimed the Lamaha Street Railway Embankment. This area is earmarked for a special Municipal project; which would be of benefit to all citizens.Town Clerk, Royston King has noted that the Council has an environmental health responsibility to all citizens of Georgetown to ensure that environment is conducive to live and work.

Opposition leader Robert Corbin is confident that the international community will work in its own way to exert influence to have an investigation into the alleged complicity of the Guyana Government in the drug trade and what he called state-sponsored murder.The Opposition Leader has written to several heads of government and various international organisations to press for an investigation relating to revelations emerging from a New York court that is hearing evidence in the trial of attorney Robert Simels.Simels,Cheap Adidas Shoes For Sale Online, the former attorney for Guyanese drug trafficker Shaheed Roger Khan. Simels is on trial for witness tampering in elation to the Khan drug trafficking case, and for the possession of surveillance equipment.Evidence emerging has suggested that there was complicity by the Guyana government to the activities of the drug dealer who it is alleged headed a ‘Phantom Squad’ that was responsible for the murders of more than 200 persons during a crime wave a few years ago.According to Corbin who led another protest yesterday,Cheap Stitched Jerseys, this time outside Office of the President, naturally responses to the letters he has sent will take some time and those who have been informed will have to determine the best way to exert their influence.“We informed the US Government since 2003 about Roger Khan and his activities here and while it appeared that they didn’t take heed, they carefully orchestrated a plan and it took them three years before they could have nabbed Roger Khan in Trinidad.“So I have no doubt that they will work in their own ways to exert that influence,” the leader of the main opposition People’s National Congress Reform told media practitioners yesterday.Corbin has been leading a call for an Interpol investigation into the allegations since he said there is little confidence in the local police to carry out an impartial probe.He is of the opinion that any involvement of the local police will be to ‘cover up’ and put witnesses in danger.“As we’ve seen in the case of George Bacchus and Kerzorkee where potential witnesses are eliminated, so I have no faith in them,” Corbin said. He described the 2005 Commission of Inquiry that cleared then Home Affairs Minister,wholesale soccer jerseys, Ronald Gajraj of facilitating a ‘death squad’ as a ‘commission of cover-up’.“It was a commission to cover-up,Cheap NFL Jerseys, and absolve Gajraj so that they could have promoted him and appoint him as Ambassador to India,Wholesale Stitched NFL Jerseys, where he is at the moment,” he declared.Corbin said that his party does not need any more information from the court case in New York to feel vindicated in what it has been saying all along.“The police had sworn statements since the time of George Bacchus. I sent the two affidavits with sworn testimony right here in Guyana. So the situation has not changed except that the world has heard from a credible source of information which the PNCR and other organizations have been making public for some time,Derrick Rose Jersey,” the Opposition Leader told this newspaper.He said that the case in the United States has vindicated his party and other organizations’ expressions over the past years.

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