Councillors at Thursday’s sitting of the Hanover Municipal Corporation unleashed their collective fury about the state of garbage collection in the western parish, blaming the latest rat infestation on the numerous piles of uncollected waste across the parish.

“We are lucky that the public health department has not come across more incidents of leptospirosis in this parish,” said Andrea Dehaney-Grant, the deputy mayor of Lucea and Councillor for the Sandy Bay division, in expressing her personal disgust with the situation.

Dehaney-Grant, who chaired the meeting in the absence of Mayor Sheridan Samuels, made her observation after the tabling of the National Solid Waste Management Authority’s (NSWMA) report for the month of May, which stated that 31 districts were left with uncollected garbage during the month.