CITCO offers extra cleanup service for holidays

In case you need another reason to clean up your house and yard for Christmas, tonight we have one, courtesy of the Belize City Council. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods explains.

Jacqueline Woods, Reporting

It’s just amazing the amount of garbage a household can accumulate in a year. The collection of old zinc, boards, appliances, furniture…you name it, has kept sanitation workers from the Belize City Council and Sanitation Enterprise Limited very busy

during the Christmas season.

Cecil Price, Sanitation Worker, S.E.L.

“Well, it does a lot for me because I am proud to be a Belizean cleaning up the city, you know especially for the Christmas.”

The activity is part of the City’s Christmas Clean up Campaign. This year, the workers will spend two days in each electoral division picking up the excess garbage from homes.

Jacqueline Woods

“What are the residents being asked to do?”

Lawrence Ellis, Mgr., Sanitation Works, Bz. City Council

“They are asked to clean out their properties. If they are renovating their homes inside, to put all the stuff out, Old refrigerators, old stoves, old boards, tree cuttings whatever they have in the yard. We don’t want construction waste, but minor construction waste that they are doing, a couple boards, we could move that.”

The clean up is being done at no cost to residents. Today, the workers were in the Queen Square and Mesopotamia divisions.

Lawrence Ellis

“S.E.L. is working along with us and we have some cutters and some trucks out along with our cutters and trucks. We are going to do Queen Square and Mesop, the sixteenth and the seventeenth; Lake Independence, the eighteenth and the nineteenth; Collet, the twentieth and the twenty first, and Port Loyola the twenty second and the twenty-third.”

Ellis says they know that residents will continue to put out garbage after the workers have left an area, so they will be making one final sweep of the city before Christmas. Jacqueline Woods for News 5.