Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (Cepep) CEO Kei­th Ed­dy is com­mend­ing his work­ers, say­ing they have once again de­liv­ered on their com­mit­ment to keep­ing Port-of-Spain clean, af­ter they en­sured that the city was free of any rem­nants of Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions by mid­night on Ash Wednes­day.

Part­ner­ing with the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) and the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion, Cepep de­ployed 35 con­trac­tors and ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1,050 work­ers to main­tain the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, the pa­rade route, and down­town Port-of-Spain through­out the Car­ni­val week­end. Clean-up ef­forts cov­ered key ar­eas, in­clud­ing St James, Mu­cu­rapo Road, St Clair Av­enue, Tra­garete Road, and Wood­brook.

Ed­dy, in a re­lease is­sued yes­ter­day, said he in­spect­ed the clean-up short­ly af­ter mid­night and com­mend­ed the ded­i­ca­tion of the team.