Eileene L. Parsons makes rallying call for roadside clean-up
Making her contribution to the NDP Radio programme on November 21, 2011, Mrs. Parsons gave a “shout out” to the youths of the Action Committee, who she said saw it fit to take their time to volunteer to clean the roadside leading into Brewers Bay and said persons particularly in the 5th and 6th Districts should follow suit. “I heard that there is a movement afoot, I think it is in the 6th District, to do the same thing and I would like to honestly ask the men in all the districts especially my District, the 5th, and my close neighbour the 6th, to let us get together and volunteer to clean up our roadside. Our roadsides are a disgrace. You can scarcely drive on some of them. The grass has grown up and as the hymn says, it covers everything.”
According to Mrs. Parsons, a regular caller to the radio programme and a staunch supporter of the National Democratic Party (NDP), there was need for members of the community to get together to clean up the roadsides and not depend on Government, who was not able to do it because of lack of finances. “There is no money to pay to get it done let us make it, as Brewer’s Bay did, an early Saturday morning get-together and get out there. Women provide the food and men come with their weed eaters and let us get our roadside clean up going down mountains, going down Fort Hill. We need all of the scenic Ridge Road, it is overgrown, it is a joke and there is no way that Government can do it because Government does not have the wherewithal...let us the people who use the road side...let us try Delores, Alvera, all of you get the men, encourage them.”
Mrs. Parsons even said she was going to assist in whatever way she could. “I will give whatever, a case of beer, some ice water some chicken wings, whatever, let us work now. Tourist season has begun let us work now to get the roadside in our districts cleaned up.”
5th District Representative Delores Christopher, who was one of the guests on the first edition of NDP Radio since the new Government was installed, assured that clean-up exercises would be done in the 3rd, 5th and 6thDistricts. “Many districts are joining in. We are making it a BVI pride thing.”
Mrs. Christopher was referring to the Territory-wide clean-up campaign that Government has planned and actually set in motion in Road Town yesterday November 22, 2011.
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