{"id":26974,"date":"2025-03-18T14:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26974"},"modified":"2025-03-18T14:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:53:07","slug":"minister-parag-rejects-oppositions-garbage-city-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/minister-parag-rejects-oppositions-garbage-city-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Parag Rejects Opposition\u2019s \u2018Garbage City\u2019 Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Celestine Chacon<\/em><br><em>February 18, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Sonia Parag, has dismissed claims by the opposition that Georgetown was a &#8220;garbage city&#8221; under the tenure of the People\u2019s Progressive Party\/Civic (PPP\/C) government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the 101st sitting of the National Assembly on Monday, Opposition Member Ganesh Mahipaul criticized the PPP\/C\u2019s management of the capital, alleging that the city was neglected during their time in office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further claimed that the APNU\/AFC administration, upon assuming office in 2015, took corrective measures to restore Georgetown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, Minister Parag rejected these assertions, stating that when the PPP\/C returned to office, the city was already in a deteriorated state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She noted that the government had to establish a task force and committee to address the garbage crisis and clean up the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parag also refuted claims that the PPP\/C government had refused to support City Hall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She emphasized that while the government remains committed to investing in Georgetown, such financial allocations would only be made under state-managed projects due to concerns over financial mismanagement at City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She pointed out that City Hall had failed to remit $1.7 billion in statutory employee deductions to the Guyana Revenue Authority and had consistently violated the Fiscal Management Act by submitting budget estimates late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing broader concerns, Minister Parag highlighted that all 70 Neighborhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) across the country had received increased subventions, with each NDC benefiting from an additional $5 million in funding, along with a $4 million grant for infrastructure and development projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Celestine ChaconFebruary 18, 2025 Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Sonia Parag, has dismissed claims by the opposition that Georgetown was a &#8220;garbage city&#8221; under the tenure of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26975,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26974\/revisions\/26975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}