MoPW to intensify enforcement against unauthorised billboards, banners along major roads

The Ministry of Public Works says it will intensify enforcement against unauthorised billboards, banners and posters erected along highways and major roads.

Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill, reminded organisers that the Ministry of Public Works is the sole authority to grant permission for the erection of billboards along the main thoroughfares and highways.

“You want people to know about your event but the activities are gone, completed and the billboards remain there. The place looks awful. The aesthetics of the city is being compromised and of course the Ministry of Public Works has to expend sums of money to send small contractors to remove the billboard and to take down these billboards and other paraphernalia,” Minister Edghill said.

The minister appealed to citizens to report unauthorised signs through the ministry’s hotline, +592 624-2964.

“Again, if you see this defacing, if you see this operation in your community, and there are billboards, posters that are on lamp poles, posters that are stuck in the earthen road shoulders even cloth paraphernalia that is now defaced and tearing; we have a Task Force that is dealing with it, contact us,” Minister Edghill reiterated.