FIX IT!

• Garbage heap is an eyesore near new music museum

RESIDENTS OF Water Lane and surrounding areas near East Street in downtown Kingston have been living with an unsightly and unhygienic rubbish heap for months, and they want it addressed now.

The eyesore is metres away from a building beautifully refurbished by the Institute of Jamaica to house an exhibition being put on by the Jamaica Music Museum.

"One rubbish heap did deh pon the other side of the road, and me clean up the two of them already, but when the rubbish truck come, them come on Harbour Street and Hanover Street. Dem no come up in the lane, and even when them come, them only scrape off little," said a resident who gave his name only as Dwayne.

"The street sweeper them just throw them rubbish there even though me tell them don't throw it deh, and since them throw it, everybody else throw them rubbish deh," Dwayne added.

He said residents have repeatedly asked the authorities to address the issue and provide the community with a regular garbage-collection system.