IT may take up to another week to get Kingston clean as after two days of clean-up, specifically targeting debris left by Hurricane Dean in August, many of the capital’s streets were yesterday still littered with dried leaves, fallen tree trunks, and dislodged building materials.

In some cases, entire communities were left untouched while only partial collection occurred in other places.

Communities like Red Hills Gardens and the area between Bay Farm and Molynes Roads, for example, had apparently not yet been visited by the clean-up crews. In other areas like Collie Smith Drive in Arnett Gardens, Allerdyce Drive in Kingston 8 and major thoroughfares like Spanish Town Road and Washington Boulevard, only partial removal had taken place.

Co-ordinator of the national clean-up committee, Michael Ammar Jr, said organisers were aware of the situation in Kingston and that it would be addressed.

“We’re certainly aware that there are some pockets that remain but we’re not finished until October 7,” he said yesterday.

“What happened on the weekend was the public part in terms of putting the garbage out but the work goes on (and) the projection of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is October 7,” added Ammar.

He said an inventory of areas that still needed attention was being undertaken and that a plan targeting those areas would be outlined at a meeting of the committee today.

On Saturday and Sunday business people and ordinary Jamaicans alike volunteered trucks, tractors, chain saws and manpower to the national post-hurricane clean-up. They also donated drinking water, food, garbage bags and cash to the effort.

Teams targeted areas that had been badly hit by Hurricane Dean on August 19 such as Old Harbour Bay in St Catherine; Portland Cottage and Rocky Point in Clarendon; Manchioneal in Portland, as well as areas in and around the Kingston Metropolitan Area.