PRIME Minister, Brigadier (ret’d), Mark Phillips, who is performing the duties of President, has called on communities to keep their environments clean as he spearheaded a massive clean-up campaign around the city on Sunday morning.
The Prime Minister said the national clean-up campaign forms part of the administration’s continued effort, over the past two years, to ensure that Guyana is kept clean.
Prime Minister Phillips was accompanied by Public Works Minister, Juan Edghill; Minister within the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar; acting Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Colonel Omar Khan and Commissioner of Police (ag), Clifton Hicken.
The Prime Minister, during the exercise at the newly-commissioned Mandela-Eccles Four-Lane Highway, urged citizens traversing the roadways to dispose of their garbage in a responsible manner, his office said in a release.
“I want to take this opportunity as we cleaned up this highway to impress upon the users of the highway to keep your garbage in your vehicles and deposit it at home in your garbage bins as opposed to throwing it on the highway, because at some stage it will become dangerous to other drivers. So this is a good example as to the importance of people keeping their environment clean,” he said.
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