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A BU family member visiting from the cold North sent us a note with the following observations:

I have read about the growing problem of garbage that is a blemish on the Gem of the Caribbean, and yesterday experienced it first hand.

As is my usual custom, after clearing Immigration and Customs at GAIA following 5-6 hours on Air Canada flight 966 from, I picked up the hire car and my first stop was, as usual, at the rum shop, PUGS, at the roundabout by the SOL Gas Station by GAIA.

  • PUGS, which could use a cleaning and a paint job.
  • Pile of trash awaiting pick up at PUGS
  • Pile of trash awaiting pick up on the roadside by the crosswalk from the airport parking lot to the bus  stop.

Is that what is meant by Welcome to Barbados

I think that if I was a first time visitor and this was my first impression, or one who has no particular affection for the people on this lump of coral, I would have been inclined to return to GAIA and get on Air Canada flight 967.

Something has to be done about the trash NOW.

By the way, the sign on the tourist welcome office in the arrivals area just before leaving the building still says Barbados Tourism Authority!

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107 responses to “Keep Barbados Clean for Godsakes!”

  1. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Just asking aka waiting November 9, 2014 at 9:32 AM
    “neighborhoods coming together and cleaning up their surroundings until the collection trucks arrive. Being poor doesn’t mean you should be unhygienic and untidy. You drive through so many districts where the residents can get together and place trash lying around in big bags or covered cans. ”

    Even with dengue and chickungunya around many people won’t even clean their own houses and yards and you expect them to clean public places?

    Stuype!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    We Bajans are a bunch of poor great poppers. We believe that we are so important that other people have to clean up after us.

    Tell the truthJust Asking when last have you cleaned your own house or your own yard?

  2. Pat Avatar
    Pat

    Hi Sarge,

    Man, I forgot the raccoons in my backyard composters. They ate all my corn this year. My Bajan corn for roasting and the GM corn for boiling. then, there are the blasted squirrels. The black ones are pests and bold as brass. Bajans got it good. They just dont know.

    In Bridgetown, two garbage collections a week. Here the City reduced the collection and increased the taxes. They gave us free water saving shower heads and diffusers for the kitchen taps to save water. Then revenues went down and water taxes went up, we were not using enough water they said. Bajans got it good. They just dont know.

  3. David Avatar
    David

    For those who do not understand what is happening with garbage pickup in Barbados:

    He spoke against the backdrop of news reports that the SSA was struggling to meet its commitments because an average of only 17 working trucks were on the road daily, short of the minimum 26 needed to adequately cover the country.

    Padmore was unable to say how many vehicles were now on the road but said that over the last weekend mechanics had been “putting in long hours” to return to service several trucks reportedly taken off the road with a variety of complaints from operators.

    – See more at: http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/55983/garbage-pickup#sthash.pM2Djyqa.dpuf

    Another article:

     

    garbagefairdhildstreet110314

    In the heart of the island’s capital city, garbage piles are growing.

    Nowhere is it more apparent than in Fairchild Street, a hub for the island’s fruit and vegetable vendors, where people have dispensed with the filled-to-capacity skip and have just taken to dumping the garbage in its shadow.

    A person to whom the DAILY NATION spoke said it had been like that for about a week and he was hoping the Sanitation Service Authority would come soon to remove it.

    But this unsightly picture is replicated across the island given the high level of indiscriminate dumping, together with long delays for garbage collection. (HLE)

    Here, the overflowing skip and garbage metres away from a number of food establishments and vendors in Fairchild Street.

    – See more at: http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/58516/garbage-piling#sthash.cPvRHu5R.dpuf

     

  4. ac Avatar
    ac

    the truth is that nasty people are just downright Nasty and could not care less about cleaning up after! before! or not at all. however BU has become the playground for political fodder, tomorrow another story will be headlining all the evils of barbados with bells whistle blasting and little drummer boy miller beating his drum loudly and in tow with prodigal blowing the trumpet,

    BTW here is a story word on the street! ears on the ground, BLP fighting again this time for same sex couples to be given the same legal protection as heterosexual.against domestic violence.

  5. Pat Avatar
    Pat

    @ David;

    Now that last picture is bad. That is pretty awful. Problem can be solved by placing 2, 3, or 4 skips in the area to hold the garbage until the pickup. Then again, they merchants/vendors could have put the garbage in bags or the boxes strewn around.

    Reminds me of Toronto before Rob Ford. lol.

  6. David Avatar
    David

    BU has reluctantly reached the position it has to be about naming and shaming at this stage. We cannot year after year have this BS with new trucks purchased in November last year and one year later several are parked in the workshop. This is taxpayers dollars. Last week the SSA stopped working because there was a plan to allocate working trucks to the North for x days and the South for x days, the result, workers will have to work 3-days because of unavailable equipment. Sick of it.

  7. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    @PAT
    What we need before we start supplying more containers, many of which cannot be transported to the landfill,anyway, when they are filled , because of a lack of trucks to handle these skip bins ; is a massive education programme,followed by meaningful penalties.
    It is not uncommon in Barbados to see a sign posted by the Ministry of Health, in those areas where indiscriminate dumping is prevalent,warning residents not to dump or face a penalty of umpteen dollars. Next morning as you pass that same spot, the posted sign is covered in piles of garbage,and its business of usual .No one is penalised.
    Do you recall when some of the senior parochial health inspectors used to visit the schools and lecture the children on this sort of thing?

  8. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @ac November 9, 2014 at 7:40 PM “BTW here is a story word on the street! ears on the ground, BLP fighting again this time for same sex couples to be given the same legal protection as heterosexual.against domestic violence.”

    So is that not a good thing ac. Aren’t same sex couples people too? Bajans too? citizens too? taxpayers too? voters too?

    Don’t they deserve the same legal protections as everyone else?

  9. Dr Love. Avatar
    Dr Love.

    POETIC JUSTICE:
    Filthy Country
    Filthy Politicians
    Filthy Lawyers
    Filthy Judiciary
    Filthy DPP
    Filthy Streets
    Filth and Corruption on every corner and in every crevice of the Law and Government.

    Barbados is about to FLUSH right down the sewer.
    Diseases are everywhere, out breaks TB, Dengue, Chikungunya,
    The Biggest disease of all; CORRUPT GOVERNMENT; eating the very SOUL out of the Country.
    Degradation is the lot of Barbadians now.
    Taxed into oblivion by an IMF “RASS LIKKIN” GOVERMENT , Sinking the Country in a sea of borrowing.
    Clueless and playing “the POLITICIAN” dressed like the PIMPS they are , selling the Children of Barbados into eternal bondage.
    What this government are getting us into has NO ending or ESCAPE.
    They are FORGING the CHAINS of your ETERNAL Slavery.

  10. ac Avatar
    ac

    Simple Simon | November 9, 2014 at 8:29 PM
    |
    @ac November 9, 2014 at 7:40 PM “BTW here is a story word on the street! ears on the ground, BLP fighting again this time for same sex couples to be given the same legal protection as heterosexual.against domestic violence.”

    So is that not a good thing ac. Aren’t same sex couples people too? Bajans too? citizens too? taxpayers too? voters too?
    Don’t they deserve the same legal protections as everyone else?

    ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

    yes i agree but ac not a member or party (to ) the in house fighting

  11. ac Avatar
    ac

    yes these were in the good times of plenty and nuff nufff,

    Environment Minister Liz Thompson Says Almost 400 Illegal Dumps…

    “The waste was found to be bulky, domestic, and construction primarily. There were 49 liquid waste sites in 39 gully segments and distributed garbage over 347 locations in gullies.

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

    Barbados Health Minister Jerome Walcott spoke in the House of Assembly yesterday in favour of the Government’s motion for more than eight million dollars to repair current garbage trucks and purchase new equipment. This is up from the five million proposed for the same purchases just six months ago, but what’s a few extra million between friends?
    Doctor Walcott also said that the Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) plans to restore twice-weekly garbage collections throughout the island.
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………Not everyone in the government thinks we have a problem. As recently as August 5, 2005 the Government’s own Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Erskine Griffith, and Parliamentary Secretary Rudy Grant dismissed charges that Barbados “was overrun by garbage.”.
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………So when the Owen Arthur government announces a “new initiative”, you can understand why Bajans respond “No more talk. Just show us some action.”

  12. ac Avatar
    ac

    here is a snippet of what the public was saying about garbage as far back as 2006 when the blp was in govt……. mind u in the years of good and plenty.

    this country is awash in garbage to the point where it is impacting our ability to proudly host tourists. Tourism is our #1 economic foundation. Without it we would be finished. Look around Barbados right from the City to the roads and gullies: garbage and more garbage, so much garbage that our reputation is being attacked and any thinking person would have to agree that the place is looking badly.

    ””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””’

  13. ac Avatar
    ac

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/internationalproperty/10710665/Worlds-top-20-places-for-the-good-life.html?frame=2857870

  14. ac Avatar
    ac

    http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02857/PRbarbados22034_2857870k.jpg

  15. ac Avatar
    ac

    while the bajan yardfowls and speckle fowls throw barbados under the dump. there are outsiders in the international world looking out for barbados best interest, surely who would dare say barbados is one of the worlds top destination places to visit in the world,, not on BU for sure, ,

  16. islandgal246 Avatar
    islandgal246

    Yes AC show prettied up photos to fool people and when they come here and see the real Barbados they will say that they have been duped. That is how your people operate, by fooling people. What we are trying to do is spur the relevant authorities to CLEAN UP BARBADOS’ GARBAGE and start PROSECUTING those who litter. But people like you prefer to pretend it doesn’t exist. Keep living the lie, the BIG LIE!

  17. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    …while you are dealing with Dompey’s ban David, how about losing ac in the moderation bucket for a couple weeks…?

  18. ac Avatar
    ac

    yes isgal talk to the daily telegraoh dem the ones that post the picture i deliver the message,,ummm no.11 not all that bad,,btw i also posted stories going as far back as a ten year period when wunna (blp) was in office and the flith and stench was part and parcel of the barbados landscape . and wunna yardfowls kept wunna mouth shut, i also got pictures of them good ole days to show
    wunna got no shame uh talll uh talll. uh tallll.

  19. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    @AC
    So this garbage problem was present under the BLP administration as well ?
    Well , therefore what we are now experiencing is quite OK then. Problem solved. All Barbadians can sleep comfortable tonight, except those who are perched on a limb in the backyard.

  20. ac Avatar
    ac

    good nite BU it was all worth the fight after all barbados ended on a good note a la ac bye bye yardies and speckledfowl. and the licorish two faced measly mout hypocrite professor brass bowl. u ole goat,

  21. David Avatar
    David

    To repeat, even minister of garbage Denis Lowe stated when he returned from Samoa that there was a garbage problem and last week SSA workers stopped work because of a shortage of trucks to cover the island. Those who live outside Barbados are clueless to what is the problem.

  22. Pat Avatar
    Pat

    @ Colonel Buggy

    I do remember the health inspectors coming to the school, not just to talk but to check the toilets to see if they were clean.

    I also remember Felix Jones, the local Health Inspector in this cork hat and khaki outfit with his ladle hooked to his pants. He would take this ladle and scoop out water from the duck pond to see if there were mosquito larvae in it. He would check the crab holes, the gutters and the cess pool from the pig pen. You always made sure there was nothing for him to write in his black book. The yard was kept clean, the pig pen hosed down, and not a piece of garbage anywhere.

    @ ac

    I suppose potection for same sex couples from domestic violence may put a stop to the biting of vaginas.

  23. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE PROBLEM FRO WHERE I SIT IS THAT
    1 THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND SANITATION DEPT ARE FALTERING BADLY

    2 THERE IS MORE GARBAGE AROUND THAN USED TO BE THE CASE

    SINCE WE USED TO DO MUCH BETTER, WE NEED TO RETURN TO THE STANDARDS THAT WE USED TO MAINTAIN

  24. Pat Avatar
    Pat

    What a georgeous picture of beautiful Bathsheba. that same picture is on a calendar at one of my bridge partners. It is for the month of November and as soon as I walked into her kitchen last week, I recognized it. Cant wait to get home in january.

  25. Pat Avatar
    Pat

    Dr. GP

    Lets face it. In our day, there were not all these fast food outlets with styrofoam and plastic. You used a paper bag and it was used and re-used until the bottom gave out. I had a school mate who brought her lunch o school in the same paper bag until it got fuzzy and then disintegrated. Then she got another bag. She never had a lunch box. Even in form 6, she was still using paper bags and wearing pumps. She never had school shoes, but she ended up being a Chartered Accountant, and retired at 49.

  26. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ ac
    ….and the licorish two faced measly mout hypocrite professor brass bowl. u ole goat,”
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Love and kisses to you too sugar….LOL
    …and a special kiss goodbye – when David gets around to banning your yardfowl tail from BU … 🙂

  27. islandgal246 Avatar
    islandgal246

    Bushie you kissing AC goodnight?????

  28. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    @Pat
    Speaking about Health Inspectors, who could forget Felix Jones ,or Mr Gittens . Do you recall that we also had the only two female Health Inspectors at that time ,when such jobs were reserved for men. I was at a family funeral a few weeks ago, and both of these ladies, now around 80 years of age , were present.
    Sesame Street has a piece called “Who is the person in your neighbourhood.” And what a pity that we had never seen it fit to name the Tamarind Hall Complex after one of our many parish heroes /heroines , not forgetting the veritable Nurse Nichools, instead of a American stranger.

  29. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Colonel Buggy/Pat
    The original public health inspectors and nurses were outstanding and very innovative
    This is what Sir MA Byer told us when we did Public Health rotations with him
    Warrens ought to have been named after Lenora Jackman- the first Health Sister there.She was also one of the pioneers in our Public Health system

  30. John Hanson 1781-1782 Avatar
    John Hanson 1781-1782

    GOVERNMENT RUNNING SMOOTH AND SMELL LIKE SHE-IT,
    WHATS OUT SIDE , IS THE SAME IN SIDE THE BLP AND DLP ,

  31. David Avatar
    David

    Minister of the Environment Denis ‘Lowe to the rescue!

    Waste plan

    denislowe

    Barbadians can expect more timely garbage collections as early as mid-December.

    his assurance came from Minister of Environment Denis Lowe while addressing members of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) at a Christ Church East branch meeting yesterday at the St Christopher Primary School in Christ Church.

    Speaking to a number of national issues, Lowe said that his ministry would be swiftly moving towards bringing some new 20 compactors into operation and it would also be implementing “sustainable collections routines”.

    He said that the Sanitation Services Authority (SSA) operated with a minimum of some 17 vehicles daily and he committed that before the Christmas rush that number would be increased to 25.

    Please read the full story in today’s Daily Nation, or in the eNATION edition.

    – See more at: http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/59053/waste-plan#sthash.3IYBPBkg.dpuf

     

  32. ac Avatar
    ac

    @colonel
    My point being that when one starts pelting sh..t at people,s paling some of that sh..t might stick to theirs..no sense. in BLP yardfowls and speckled fowls being mischievous as they have a very poor record on enviromental issues ..the same issues which barbados is facing …and which should have taken precedant AND corrected in a fourteen year period
    There is absolutely no excuse that this”hotbutton”political issue should still be burning. However (we) all know why.

  33. David Avatar
    David

    Who remembers the fight Barbadians put up against the location of Greenland landfill?

    Who remember Richard Goddard who led the charge?

    Who remember Liz Thompson’s pronouncements and her retreat to the collective of Cabinet?

    Who remembe Hugh Sealy’s position?

    Then we get Johnny Come Latelies who join the debate who are clueless to the fact that the only opportunity Barbadians have to make their voice hears is once every 5 years.

    This is our democracy ladies and gentlemen.

  34. Artaxerxes Avatar
    Artaxerxes

    We must come to terms with the fact that in “times of need”, this DLP administration sought to pursue unsustainable, unproductive “vote catching” policies, rather than concentrate on areas that would promote health and productivity, e.g., the island’s sanitation and improving the efficiency of the transport service.

    In February 2013, the Ministry of Health expressed concerned about the significant increase in dengue cases so far for that year. According to the Thursday, February 14, 2013 edition of the Daily Nation, The MoH reported “51 confirmed cases of dengue fever during the first 4 epidemiologic weeks of 2013 as compared with 20 cases during the same period of 2012.”
    Since the MoH is in possession of these statistics, why Barbados should be grappling with dengue and chikungunya cases in 2014, when proactive contingency planning should have been paramount? It goes to show the health authorities are not proactive, but reactive.

    Instead, this administration continues to allocate funds to support Constituency Councils, which to date, have not produced any financials or reports to justify their existence and highlight any success achieved.

    We are encouraged to make use of the councils for the betterment of the community. So, our garbage has not been collected for weeks and we go to a council for assistance. But we will receive the same response if we called the SSA directly……. garbage remains uncollected. We call on the council to assist in the cleaning of vacant lots, blocked drains accumulating water, all which contributes to an increase in the mosquito population, resulting in more dengue and chikungunya cases. If we called the relevant authorities to rectify these issues, do not the councils have to undergo a similar process?

    This money could have been allocated to the SSA to purchase a few trucks and maintenance of the existing fleet.

  35. FearPlay Avatar
    FearPlay

    @ac Be reminded that the reason the people voted the DLP into office was because they had become dissatisfied with the way in which the BLP were behaving and managing some sectors of the country. For you to keep harping on what was wrong when the other party managed the country as justification for the current mismanagement is counterproductive. There is an old saying that goes like this “Either hurry up and P or get off the potty” and this is the opinion of a vast majority of the population today as it relates to the lack of performance and proclivity of excuses by the government.

  36. Jack Bowman Avatar
    Jack Bowman

    David sees a need for Vatican involvement on November 9, 2014 at 6:20 PM:

    “If it were left to BU all the property between the two airport roundabouts and a few to the East … would be compulsorily acquired and the stretch beatified.”

    Jesus, why not canonize it as well? You really think the Pope wants to get involved in this?

  37. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Minister of the Environment Dennis Lowe is promising 25 new compactor trucks, 5 of these before the”christmas rush”
    Also he has promised to repair those broken trucks up there,and faster. And to outsource repairs to vehicles. And to write it in there as a matter of policy.

    What we need to do right now,and it has been long overdue, is to carry out a complete survey of the Sanitation Service Authority Fleet operation,from the purchasing of new vehicles,to the maintenance and disposal of retired vehicle.
    We don’t have to go overseas to secure expertise,as we always do, to carry out such a survey. Right here in Barbados we have at least two men, who are highly qualified and experienced to conduct such an undertaking, and make recommendations.

  38. St George's Dragon Avatar
    St George’s Dragon

    It’s always better to buy 20 new compactors than to repair the old broken-down refuse collection trucks. There is no “commission fee” obtainable on repair work but a nice big purchase deal ought to generate what – 5%, 10% “commission?

  39. ac Avatar
    ac

    AC must also be reminded that after fourteen years of ineffiency and incompetancy that it does not take a rocket scientist to figure that to dig barbados out of the ditch it will take much more than six years ,a bucket, and shovel. to clean this mess up no matter who is at the helm of the wheel.These social issues have been devoid of the action and the will to do what is right
    and in the best interest of country for years which is translated into poor management and pisspoor promises
    All are guilty as charged.

  40. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    There has been many calls for each of us to come together and help in the cleaning up of our communities,but one of the most frustrating things about this, is that quickly after donating time, effort and equipment ,those places which were recently cleaned, very soon begin to be restocked with garbage.
    Jack-in-the-Box-Gully in St Thomas is a typical example
    http://i.imgur.com/hJoPz8q.jpg

  41. iidmax Avatar
    iidmax

    A question to all. Is keeping your surrounding/premises clean or nasty a BLP supporter or DLP supporter mode of operation? From what I see it seems that the SSA had a bad situation for years with illegal dumping and such like. This partisian divide that seems to creep into all issues discussed it what is really destroying this country. Living in the past and not looking forward is surely going to get us no where really fast; whether u are blp or dlp

  42. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Jack Bowman November 10, 2014 at 1:22 PM “Jesus, why not canonize it as well? You really think the Pope wants to get involved in this?”

    Why not? The Pope needs a vacation too. He can come to Barbados anytime. We have our faults but we do not beat up people because of their religion. So I say “Welcome you Holiness”

  43. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    My garbage was picked up at 2 this morning. I heard the truck and rolled over and went back to sleep. So my gap is nice and clean. Still when I got up someone had left a styrofoam container to blow into my yard. It was not my container. And I am at least a couple of miles from the nearest fast food place. Anyhow I picked it up and will keep it for the next collection day.

    But cheeze on bread. People have to stop behaving like toddlers who drop things at the slightest distraction.

  44. David Avatar
    David

    Kudos to Tricia Watson for labeling Barbadian nasty people by highlighting the garbage problem. Sometimes commenters to BU frame distil issues within a narrow political confine.

  45. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    And we also want to hear more people like Tricia condemning this spate of nastiness from the Pulpits, Parent- teachers associations, Political Platforms, Principals platforms, Q in the Community, Constituency Councils, town hall meetings, Service Clubs, and Bridgetown Merchants who are the original owners of much of the garbage produced in this country ,Government Information Service,CBC, VOB .

  46. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ David | November 12, 2014 at 12:28 PM |
    “Kudos to Tricia Watson for labeling Barbadian nasty people by highlighting the garbage problem.”

    Now that’s what you call a woman of CLASS! That’s what you call emotional intelligence. She has joined a select group of those who can lay claim to a rare talent in Barbados called ‘Commonsense’. Please, Hants, Colonel Buggy, Island gal and Kammie Holder welcome Ms Watson to the club.

    PS: Mrs. Irene S-G can take a leaf out of Ms Watson’s book of cleanliness and hygiene. Ac, you can do the honours and carry the message as sealed.

  47. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ David Bu:

    Have you read today’s editorial in the ‘Barbados Today’ on line newspaper?
    David, you should be proud of living up to the BU motto; always in the vanguard and ahead of the pack in telling it like it is.
    At least the noises from the BU gang of garbage busters fighting the litter bugs and official indifference have not all fallen on death ears. Hants, Colonel Buggy and Island gal can stand proud now that the classless Cabinet has been fully apprised of the nasty unhealthy state of the environment and the negative impressions its presents to visitors especially those on their first visit to the country. We shall see what comes out of it other than a rebranding of signposts and street names.

    But we should not hold our breath as the foul-mouthed ac seeks to contaminate the air with justification for the incompetence and arrogance of the Minister of the Environment. Let us await the appearance of the dragon breathing garbage and filth.

  48. David Avatar
    David

    @Miller

    Let us continue to play our role, no BS, always telling it like it is. We cannot continue to do the same BS every time expecting a different result.

  49. ac Avatar
    ac

    miller ought to shut up talking shit so early this morning about an enviromental issue which was not prioritized under the Blp admininstration but was left to fester and deteriorate at an alarming rate..u should be the last one to point blaming fingers and shower praise …reality is a son of a bitch and the enviroment is one of such realities left over from the Blp which has left a foul stench and having everyone holding their noses…hav a nice day

  50. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Miller etc.
    The issue of garbage has been a pet peeve of yours for some time but while you cast blame mostly at the Gov’t I believe that part of the blame should be placed on the people and part on the Industry especially commercial fast food vendors . In the same edition of Barbados Today there is a voice over commercial from Chefette extolling the virtues of their product why shouldn’t the Chefettes of the local scene have wording on their containers reminding the public to dispose of these containers in a responsible manner?

    Sometime ago there was a report that medical waste was dumped in a canefield it should have been relatively easy to trace the source but I can’t remember the company or anyone being prosecuted.
    The Sanitation Dept is aware of the areas where due to large numbers of the public traversing those places that there will always be excess amount of garbage why can’t that Dept. place extra garbage receptacles and schedule more pick ups?

    If people are dumping large objects under the cover of darkness why can’t the SSA declare a month long amnesty and schedule a special days where they will attend certain districts to pick up same rather than having people dump them indiscriminately or alternatively ask the public to bring them on a one time basis to certain depots where they can be disposed of?

    Lastly Barbados calls itself a God fearing country but that is belied by the actions of the people who have forgotten the phrase “cleanliness is next to godliness”, they have to be aware that the island is so small that when they think they are dumping in other peoples’ backyard the reality is that they are dumping in their own.

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