Large amounts of garbage removed from mangroves behind Festival Grounds
The area becomes the dumping ground for garbage of all sorts by vendors who conduct business in the Festival Grounds and patrons who opt to throw their garbage under and over the fence into the thick mangroves.
Then there are those culprits who litter other parts of the inland and people out at sea who litter the waterways. These activities lead to more garbage accumulating among the mangroves.
On Friday June 24, 2016 a large number of persons from the public service departments of the territory embarked on a cleanup of the mangroves in that area.
When this news site visited the cleanup exercise, everyone was in high spirits, taking much pride in the cleanup process, which was also part of the activities for Public Service Week. They were doing it to earn their various groups, Panthers, Supersonics and Warriors, points and similarly to have fun.
“This is an area that we are all affected by, the entire community, and so we want people to know that it’s not just government’s duty to deal with the environment because we are a tourism territory and we just want to show them that it takes the government and the people to ensure that our territory is safe and clean,” said Ms Felina D. Moss, Office Manager at the Ministry of Communications and Works.
Moss was also one of the team coaches.
Community minded
One of the organisers on the ground, Colene A. Penn, said the cleanup event was also being viewed as a means of giving back to the community.
“We all have a duty to clean up and keep the BVI clean, so we as public officers, in having a week of activities, thought it was important to have this event where we can give back and show that we are community minded. We want to make a difference,” said Ms Penn.
The groups reportedly removed in excess of 100 bags of garbage from the mangroves.
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17 Responses to “Large amounts of garbage removed from mangroves behind Festival Grounds”
We talk a good game about protecting the environment, yet here we have evidence that people are still ignorant and irresponsible. Chances are a barrel was just feet away, but they are too lazy to take a step. Shame on you all!!
There are concerns amongst the public with regards to the source and funding of various projects, including the housing propoals.
It is hoped that the NDP has its finances in the minds and hands of the most competent accountants, with the greatest interest of the BVI people and country at heart.
Mesanwhile, I applaud you for reconsidering the previous dael with the foriegn investor. Indeed, we must be willing to make the necessary sacrifices that will ensure our ability to stand on our own, maintain our soveriegnty and protect our lands for us the our future generations.
These lands are ours!!! Period. I know that that statement is politically incorrect. Minus the political realitity of the notion of political overseas territory, bringing into view the spectrum of crown land, if those lands are not ours, how can any foriegn self proclaimed owner justify its ownership of them, considering the wy it came into supposed ownseship of them in the first.
Where was the ligitimacy of ownership then? There was none!!! They went abroad seeking riches, the found and they took. That was the degree of political correctness back then.
Hence, today, though the political obstacles will tough to almost insurmountable, we must fight to the bitter end to sucure what is legitimately ours!!