Min Nandlall hails success of East Coast Demerara clean up

Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister, Mohabir Anil Nandlall, SC, who along with Health
Minister Dr. Frank Anthony spearheaded the clean-up activity on Saturday on the East Coast of
Demerara (ECD) has hailed the activity as being successful.
Both ministers returned to the ECD on Sunday, to take part in the operation. Communities that
were cleaned- up included, Mahaica, Unity, Enmore, Haslington, and Mon Repos. The ministers
noted the importance of the exercise to the environment and citizens. They also pointed out the
pivotal roles citizens can play to ensure this initiative is sustained.
“So, it’s rolling out good and you see the effect of it. Tons and tons of garbage are being picked
up right across the East Coast. It’s a very important initiative and we hope to continue it and
sustain it for the longest possible time. In fact, we are going to try.  I will raise with the president
the possibility of extending the workforce in the NDC to clean, to continue this this project,”
Nandlall said. The AG and legal affairs minister said he was satisfied with the response of
residents toward the initiative, noting that it is a more of a community driven programme rather
than that of the government.
“A clean environment is everybody’s duty its everybody’s business. So, it’s not a government
driven programme, and we don’t want it to be projected as that, we want it to be projected as a
community driven project. Where the entire community must do their own fair share,” Nandlall
said. Meanwhile, Dr. Anthony was also pleased with the cooperation of residents and their
efforts in cleaning the environment. He expressed the view that each citizen has a role to play in
ensuring such level of cleanliness is maintained.

“I think they’ve been really doing a good job here; they have come out, they have been cleaning
the parapets, we’re able to pile up the garbage and take them away from here…So it’s looking
really good, but what we have to do is to sustain this because while we are doing this, we want
people to make sure that the environment remains clean and to do that everyone would have to
take some responsibility,” Dr. Anthony said. It was revealed that many of the cleaning materials
and heavy-duty machinery to assist the on-going campaign was donated by the private sector.