Government allocates $300 Million to restore Georgetown

The move was announced by Finance Minister Winston Jordan during his budget presentation in the National Assembly on Monday, Jordan explained that the program will encompass an intense cleanup campaign, while enforcing laws on littering.

Government allocates $300 Million to restore Georgetown

Faced with persistent garbage problem and flooding in the nation’s capital and in several parts of the country, the government has set aside some $300 million in the 2015 National Budget for a Georgetown Restoration Programme.

The move was announced by Finance Minister Winston Jordan during his budget presentation in the National Assembly on Monday, Jordan explained that the program will encompass an intense cleanup campaign, while enforcing laws on littering. 

He promised that “our city will be reclaimed and we will all walk proud in Glorious Georgetown!” Jordan went onto implore that “as proud Guyanese, we need to restore Georgetown to its pristine state.”

 The Finance Minister and the government believe this move will enhance the aesthetics of the capital, befitting of Guyana’s unique architecture of colonial buildings, tree lined avenues and canals that make it attractive to all you visit.

“I am sure each of us will feel a sense of pride to live and work and traverse through a capital city that is a place of uplifting beauty, rather than a refuse dump,” he added.

When the APNU+AFC came to office in May, it immediately set out encouraging citizens to clean up their environment while supporting clean up campaigns that swept the country.

In 2014, the previous People’s Progressive Party government had embarked on a similar $1 billion national cleanup campaign. 

That project, similarly, had intended to address the collection and removal of garbage as well as the reporting of residents who irresponsibly dispose of their garbage.

Citizens are questioning the effectiveness of that project and requesting accountability of the $500 million which was spent to clean the city in 2014.

The new government  has indicated that it will expound on the clean up plan further and its sustainability, when the House meets to consider the estimates of expenditure next week. 

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