Flies galore in city streets

THE EDITOR: This is an open letter to the Port-of-Spain City Corporation and more particularly Mr Mayor. I don’t know how often or if you walk the streets of Port-of-Spain and environs and observe certain things, or if you just speed away in your air conditioned vehicles to the west. But I have certainly observed that a lot of flies have infiltrated the streets. This is very obvious after the garbage collectors pick up the rubbish from the streets after the vagrants have gone through all of it. The results are that swarms of flies hovering the streets are filtering into people’s houses. Couldn’t there be some mechanism in place to have these areas/streets cleaned with some liquid after the garbage is removed?

Are the Health Inspectors and those persons who drive around in the Corporation’s vehicles wearing blinkers? Mr Mayor, why is it that you and the aldermen wait until you reach crisis before something is done? Look at the street vendors in Port-of-Spain for instance. Mr Mayor I beg of you to put some mechanism in place to eradicate if not all but the majority of those flies flying around in the streets. Aren’t those persons in the Insect Vector division equipped enough to put in place some collection times etc. Remember we are striving to be a first world country by 2020.

H  BERCHLOW
Port-of-Spain