CHAIRMAN of the National Cultural Foundation (NCF) Al Gilkes says he has no knowledge of a $100 000 clean-up bill owed to the Sanitation Service Authority (SSA).

He was responding to an article in last Friday's WEEKEND NATION which stated that the NCF owed the SSA the money for cleaning up festival events held last year, and so far this year.

"I am not aware of any such debt to Sanitation; but based on the newspaper report, I will seek to identify the reason for the claim. Nowhere on the NCF's payables is there any record of such a debt," he said in a telephone interview.

Acting general manager of the SSA, Stanton Alleyne, stated in that article that the authority had only been paid for last year's Cavalcades so far.

The SUNDAY SUN understands the reason for the delay in payments could be that the responsibility might not fall on the NCF any longer, but on another Government department. This matter will have to be sorted out before the SSA is compensated.