There need to be a fine for those who blatantly throw litter on the streets . In St Lucia and one is caught littering, it is an instant fine. Even throwing litter through a commercial or passenger vehicle the offender or the driver is charged. Only yesterday, I was in a Transport Board bus and there were about 5 persons in the bus eating and drinking. There was a sign in FULL VIEW which says NO EAT OR DRINKING IN THE BUS, yet the passengers ignored it and the driver refused to say anything to them. It is one thing to had a law but it is only effective when it is implemented.

There is another case of note. During the last administration, a “big boy” was given permission to start a new development. Conveyence was given to build without proper roads constructed, no drainage in place and no street lights erected as part of the T&C regulations. Since then, this administration has paved the road but this has caused a big problem with the run-off water. Now under heavy rainfall, the water is like a runaway train, since there is no wells to trap the water. Somebody should have to answer for this, but then “who the cat likes, he licks.”

Agree with all above! Also children should be thought in schools on how NOT to litter. Observed on a number of occasions children walking to and from schools eating, drinking and throwing the empties by the wayside. Pet bottles thrown out of passenger bus/car window.
Many of us must carry some of the blame for this untidy country. I have observed adults sitting in their vehicles and throwing garbage near bins instead of getting out and placing it carefully in the bins. Go to River-bay or to most picnic areas; take a stroll through the trees and see the paper plates/cups, knives and forks left behind.
I have observed Bin-men removing garbage from bins and when a bag bursts and the contents lands on the ground it is sometimes left.
Health Inspectors do visit areas from time to time; some either fail to spot the garbage or turn a blind eye towards it.
Instead of placing rubbish in convenient places to be removed, it is often placed near water-courses, at the back of homes, near gullies. Take a hike anywhere in the country-side and one can see all kinds of appliances rusting in the trees and grass. How did it get there?
Anyone driving around B’dos can observe men and women cleaning the gutters. The grass is often placed in the road making an already narrow road more difficult to pass. The grass is sometimes left until new growth covers it or is washed back into the gutters. I believe there are men responsible for removing that grass on the same day; but this is how it is done in B’dos; leave it for another day…. no accountability.
Recently questions were asked about the driving code and the attitude of drivers especially on the new high-way, soon to be completed; prior to that the problems with seat-belts; now the habit of driving while using a cell-phone.
If I am not mistaken, there were calls to have breathalyser testing. Has any of those things been seriously considered or enforced….Leave it for another day.
Why change a habit of a lifetime? It is bound to get better.

@Paradox
Yes,children should be taught at school to respect the environment. There was a time when many of the rural schools, assigned certain areas of the compound to particular classes whose responsibility was to keep that area neat and tidy. Daresay it would cause an uproar if some principal attempted such an exercise today.And because they do not appreciate or have not experienced the actual effort of cleaning , many misguided Bajans utter the nonsense that if they do not litter, SSA persons will have no job.

Schools are taught not to litter by SSA teams – whether myself, our engineer or especially drivers and lorryloaders…

Workmans Primary, Carrington Primary, Codrington School, CXC-level Grantley Adams, CXC – BCC and so forth… But it does not help that indeed there are some idiots who feel littering is what keeps SSA in jobs! The Litter Patrol should be Litter Wardens with powers of arrest!

Most cases when illegal dumpers are caught, they use old-boy or Big Boy network to get off the hook, sigh.

I am not an engineer, but I still see MTW building covered box type drains at the sides of the roads. My little knowledge of engineering however tells me that it would be much easier to clean cylindrical type drains,plus less build up clinging silt.

Is it up to schooIs to teach chiIdren not to Iitter? No, it is up to parents. What’s the point of educating chiIdren when the parents show the oppisite, by bad exampIe?

Shouldn’t we, at least wait until the rain comes, before we roll-out the red carpet; pop off some champaign, light up the fire works and say: “mission accomplish”?

Remember, it flooded in Barbados at the same time there was record heavy rain fall, internationally.

Secondly, apart from Pandor and the hundreds who received the crash jobs to clear wells/drains and cut bush – all of the people now at Drainage Unit – were all there then when Barbadians were complaining about flooding.

It is pleasing to note that the DLP has ban flooding in this country.