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Hon Smith to launch Territory wide 'cleanup' programme in December

-all residents including HoA members invited to partner with Hon Smith
Hon Lorna G. Smith, OBE (AL) will be launching the Roots to Resilience: Together We Thrive Programme in December 2024. Photo: Facebook
The Roots to Resilience: Together We Thrive Programme's first project Paint the Town aims to beautify all communities in the Virgin Islands. Photo: VINO/File
The Roots to Resilience: Together We Thrive Programme's first project Paint the Town aims to beautify all communities in the Virgin Islands. Photo: VINO/File
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- With the development of vibrant, clean and healthy communities being a priority of Opposition Member Hon Lorna G. Smith, OBE (AL), the former Deputy Premier has announced she will be launching the Roots to Resilience: Together We Thrive Programme in December.

Programme aims to strengthen VI community

The programme will be officially launched on December 3, 2024, and aims to strengthen the Virgin Islands (VI) community by fostering engagement, promoting education and development, enhancing health and environmental well-being, and supporting financial growth.

According to a press release today, Monday, November 18, 2024, the programme consists of seventeen projects, which focus on intergenerational development, beautification, the environment, and strengthening communities of the VI.

There are seven targeted projects for this year, the first of which is Paint the Town: Community Beautification Project. This project will focus on beautifying all communities.

The six other projects include Clear the Clutter: Derelict Vehicle Removal Drive, Tradition Meets Tomorrow: Home Economics Training, Wisdom Week: Senior-led Mentorship for Young Adults, Old-time Talk: Cultural Dialect and Slang Mingle, Roots & Branches: Plant a Tree for the Future, and Art from the Heart: Recyclables Competition & Silent Auction.

All invited to be part of the programme

Community members are being invited to be part of this “exciting movement”.

Meanwhile, Hon Smith has shared that Members of the House of Assembly have also been invited to partner with her to revitalise their communities and Territory as a whole. The projects require collaboration with the necessary government departments, agencies, community leaders, and influencers.

Hon Smith said, “We need to know and understand that Beauty is by Nature. Clean is by CHOICE! We have the power to make the changes needed to return our Virgin Islands to its former heights. We must remember that the Virgin Islands “Is OUR Place!” and this is a perfect opportunity for us to rebuild our communities.”

19 Responses to “Hon Smith to launch Territory wide 'cleanup' programme in December”

  • Sara (18/11/2024, 15:06) Like (63) Dislike (0) Reply
    How about we enact and enforce legislation to keep our community clean instead of cleaning up every three months? Hold persons responsible for their lack of national pride
  • @ Sara (18/11/2024, 15:47) Like (8) Dislike (6) Reply
    THAT WAS HER INTENTION WHY SHE CROSSED THE FLOOR AND BECAUSE THE OPPOSITION HAV A BATTLE GOING WITHIN THEIR RANKS AND , SINCE TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE , SHE HAD TO MAKE THAT MOVE / BUT BUT TRUMP FIRED HER WHEN SHE SHOWED THAT SHE HAS INTEGRITY AND WAS SHOWING THAT HER STANCE ON WHAT NEEDS TO BE FOCUS ON WASN'T BEING ADRESSED BY MASTER WHEATLEY SERIOUSLY AND IT WAS SEEN AS A THREAT AND USED AS AN EXCUSE TO FIRE HER . SO JOINING WITH THE ENEMY ISN'T GOING TO NEGATE THE FACT THAT HE AIN'T GETTING THE JOB DONE . BUT IT EXPOSED THE GAMES THAT IS BEING PLAYED ON THE PEOPLE BY THESE PRETENDERS CALLED POLITICIANS , FOR THE ALMIGHTY POSITION OF
    POWER
  • TCL.SCP (18/11/2024, 16:15) Like (18) Dislike (0) Reply
    Y is it the quarry dem are allowed to let all the mud go straight to the sea. No kind of barriers or flitration system during heavy rains.
  • Wellsah (18/11/2024, 16:18) Like (9) Dislike (0) Reply
    get into all the cracks and crevices too because tola is a dump
  • 2024 (18/11/2024, 16:31) Like (4) Dislike (1) Reply
    Miss Lorna is now in PVIM Corner or What
    NDP, VIP, PVIM, Independent at large

    • @2024 (18/11/2024, 20:56) Like (13) Dislike (4) Reply
      In my view, this initiative puts her squarely in OUR corner as she encourages us, regardless of political stripe, to work together for the benefit of the place we call home and for our children and grandchildren.
  • Environmental Health (18/11/2024, 18:28) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    What the Ministry of health and environmental doing about the mosquitos ???? in the BVI especially VG and around the Iris O'Neal Clinic it sad to go with a cut and come back with Dengue where the fogging machines
  • great (18/11/2024, 19:25) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
    Initiative
  • jimbob (18/11/2024, 20:18) Like (2) Dislike (6) Reply
    Gal get ur momoo ms
  • Quiet Warrior (18/11/2024, 21:02) Like (5) Dislike (4) Reply
    Home girl trying her best to stay in the news, in the lime light. She was grass hopping leveraging her position for power, influential, status, etc. but overplayed her hand, getting canned. She is trying to find the space to chill and regroup. But people trust in her is at a low ebb and in the dump..
  • DownWest (18/11/2024, 22:11) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Now there are 2 government's
  • Citizen (18/11/2024, 23:53) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Clear up she running against Luce
  • ausar (19/11/2024, 02:49) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Litter patrol officers, employed, with an annual salary,, are neccessary, for such a continued operation, such as this!

    Intermittent cleanings, every blue moon season, cannot be the answer!

    And, if we can just get the officials, to realize this...
  • CSC (19/11/2024, 05:52) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
    yes the place looks like a hog pen
  • tola (19/11/2024, 06:50) Like (6) Dislike (0) Reply
    This country in ah mess with these clowns
  • Slaney (19/11/2024, 07:06) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
    Can we stop pumping sewage into the sea please?
  • Ha! (19/11/2024, 10:21) Like (1) Dislike (3) Reply
    Girl we not putting you back in, so if you building a name, you can quit from now
  • NeverDone (19/11/2024, 12:26) Like (5) Dislike (1) Reply
    This is another side show to undermine the dam government.
    • @NeverDone (20/11/2024, 10:16) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
      So she must stay on the opposition and dont do anyThing? Yet we want Independence


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