San Juan landown­ers may soon be called to pay up to their re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tion for lands cleared in the fight against dengue. Ac­cord­ing to Nafeesa Mo­hammed, chair­man of the San Juan/Laven­tille Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion emp­ty lots of land were be­ing made in­to breed­ing grounds for the aedes ae­gyp­ti mos­qui­to. In a tele­phone in­ter­view, Mo­hammed said the cor­po­ra­tion was be­ing called on by cit­i­zens to clear lands over­grown by bush­es. "Some of these lands have own­ers and as a cor­po­ra­tion we can­not pro­vide the ser­vices of cut­ting peo­ple's per­son­al prop­er­ty for free," said Mo­hammed.

She said, how­ev­er, that cut­ting and clear­ing the emp­ty land was nec­es­sary be­cause of the high num­ber of com­plaints. "De­ci­sive ac­tion needs to be tak­en," said Mo­hammed. She said be­cause of the grow­ing pub­lic con­cern aris­ing from dengue, all the lands would be cleared but the cor­po­ra­tion would then ver­i­fy own­er­ship and seek to be re­im­bursed by own­ers. Mo­hammed al­so called on garages and busi­ness own­ers to clean up their act. She said these busi­ness­es used poor prac­tice to get rid of their garbage. "The dump­ing of tyres and en­gines en­cour­age breed­ing of mos­qui­toes and these busi­ness­es need to be aware," Mo­hammed said.