A Ch­agua­nas man caught dump­ing rub­bish on the road­side has apol­o­gised to res­i­dents and pledged nev­er to re­peat the of­fence.

The 26-year-old from En­deav­our, who asked not to be named, spent Sun­day morn­ing clean­ing an il­le­gal dump­site af­ter be­ing ap­pre­hend­ed by the Ch­agua­nas Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice.

ASP Liza Phillips told Guardian Me­dia mem­bers of the com­mu­ni­ty filmed him dump­ing bags of rub­bish on 9 No­vem­ber and post­ed the footage on­line. Her team con­tact­ed him and, in­stead of is­su­ing a fine, agreed he would clean the pile of refuse near the south­ern end of the round­about on a con­nec­tor road be­tween Ca­roni Sa­van­nah Road and the link be­tween Ch­agua­nas Main Road and Pierre Road. The road sits in an aban­doned hous­ing es­tate for­mer­ly owned by Ca­roni (1975) Lim­it­ed and now held by State Lands.