And while the City Council has been plunged into controversy, try
telling that to Councillor with possibility for garbage Phillip Willoughby.
You could say he has a one-track mind, he seems to only think about garbage.
And now that the council has come up with a deal to renegotiate the contract
with Belize Maintenance Limited which cleans the city. Presently City hall owes
BML $1.7 million and they don’t want to end up in court. But it’s
just a proposal which would see BML finally picking up the refuse that’s
cleaned up from drains in a timely fashion and clear litter from the streets
6 times a week. It should make for a cleaner city – but it’s a give
and take – and for them to give that – Willoughby told us they’ll
take a 5 year extension.
Phillip Willoughby, Councillor for Sanitation
“We are opting to renew the contract for an additional five years
to have them forego and forgive this particular owed to them by the council.
Based on past occasions, what I’ve seen over the past how we undertook
the process to settle with our other sanitation contractors, going through the
courts, the time, it hasn’t worked out, as far as I see it, to the benefit
of the council and the residents of the city. I presume now it is best to settle
out of court and I am certain that my colleagues support this position.
This is a good deal. Maybe it is not the best but it is a good deal. I
believe it will have a substantial and significant impact on us because you
won’t getting up to seeing and hearing the complaints of bag garbage all
over the city because now BML will now be tasked to move those. The dirt that
have been dumped from the drain won’t just sit on the street for 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,
10 days or go back into the drain or mess up the street and if you look back
at the scope of work that they will now have to incur to do, it is no easy feat
for us to say that BML has gotten the best of the council, now looking at the
scope of work they have to contend with and hold them to that now.”
The deal is not final and is still pending approval of the government
and the council.
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