Hon Vanterpool embarrassed over tourist seeing 'garbage smoke' on VG
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Speaking during the debates on the National Sustainable Development plan at the continuation of the Eighth Sitting of the Fourth Session of the Fourth House of Assembly at Save the Seed Energy Centre in Duff's Bottom, Tortola on February 2, 2023, Hon Vanterpool said that on a recent trip with some visitors, he had to deny that burning of garbage was happening on Virgin Gorda.
According to the legislator, after a great day of sightseeing on a boat in various parts of the VI, the visitors arrived at Beef Island where smoke was seen coming from Virgin Gorda.
“When I reached Beef Island, and I got off, the tourist who I was with, he said, Honourable Member, that’s something happening over there on Virgin Gorda?”
Tourist thought there was a fire on VG - Hon Vanterpool
“He thought it was a big fire. I told him maybe, but I know what it was… we are burning the garbage in Virgin Gorda and the smoke going up in the air. I couldn’t let him see it too long,” Hon Vanterpool added.
Meanwhile, the legislator called for the VI to pay more attention to its islands, cays, and rocks and to be proud and sustain the environment, as highlighted in the National Sustainable Development Plan.
Senior legislator Hon Julian Fraser RA (R3) has referred to similar burning of garbage at Pockwood Pond on Tortola as a nuisance and health hazard.
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23 Responses to “Hon Vanterpool embarrassed over tourist seeing 'garbage smoke' on VG”
FOR EVER
Don’t care, incompetent, useless lot.
You guys need to do better, its people health being affected here!!
Power with no sense!!
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waste management.
THERE WHO HAS XRAY VISION AND BROUGHT IT TO LIGHT , PLEASE HELP US