Yesterday, Mayor Donald G. Flores said they trimmed, cut down trees and overgrown vegetation at the hotel area in western Garapan.
The mayor said the cleanup is part of its ongoing and regular island beautification program.
For the past months, many tourists were reported to have been robbed in the island’s tourist district.
Just recently, the Neighborhood Watch Task Force also intensified their crime prevention campaign in the area with the help of joggers and walkers.
At least ten personnel from the mayor’s office and field operation director John Aldan participated in the cleanup campaign.
The program was also supported by the P & A Corporation that has an existing memorandum agreement with the mayor’s office in the beautification program.
Walter Yu of the P & A Corporation said they are not getting paid in the collaboration with the mayor’s office.
It was President Kim Hong Kyun, Yu said, who willingly extended the group’s community service for the people of Saipan.
“It is just a contribution our company is doing for the society and joining the mayor’s office for good deeds,” he said.
The mayor’s office used heavy equipment to clear up tons of debris in the area.
Variety was told the operation will be conducted throughout the month of December until all areas in the tourist district are clean from any protruding branches and overgrown vegetation in unoccupied lots.
One of the prime movers of the Neighborhood Watch Task Force, Ramon B. Camacho, also board of parole chair, said they also conducted a cleanup drive in Dandan area with parolees yesterday.
The cleanup drive of the mayor’s office at Garapan will help eradicate the “negative” image in the area, he said.
He encouraged businessmen operating in the tourist district to adopt an area wherein they would maintain the cleanliness regularly.
Camacho, chairman of the Saipan and Northern Islands Municipal Council, said he is also working on creating a task force that would collaborate with the business sector to adopt an area for the cleanup program.
