Hosein: Team up to fight crime too

“Crime goes beyond party, religion, race and so on and just as how we are teaming up to clean up the country and it is being successful, I am urging the country to come together to solve the crime situation,” Hosein told Sunday Newsday yesterday.

“Everybody must come together,” he said after the launch of the seventh clean-up campaign in the Penal/Debe region.

Hundreds of volunteers, including school-children, and non-governmental organisations gathered at Francis Seepaul Recreation Ground, Debe for the Debe/Penal Regional Corporation leg of the campaign which is being undertaken in all 14 regional corporations. Hosein wants litter wardens and officers of the corporations public health and building departments to enforce the litter laws.

“Charge persons, enforce the law,” Hosein said observing that offenders are hardly ever prosecuted.

“They come to work and in that area little is done. These officers should become more active and once persons are charged people will become more conscious.

You must charge people for dumping in rivers and so on.

We can’t be doing this clean-up and after one week people start dumping again.” Penal/Debe Regional Corporation chairman David Sammy said the response has been overwhelming.

“They are all on board,” Sammy said adding the exercise continues today.

More than 40 small dump sites and watercourses are to be cleaned. Tyres dumped along the length of the M2 Ring Road from La Romaine to Debe were cleared yesterday.

The garbage was deposited at the Guapo and Claxton Bay landfills. Collections points were set up in Penal and Debe and Sammy hopes volunteers will continue to work with the corporation.

The clean-up campaign next goes to Siparia.