PLAY YOUR PART

While announcing that the Government was playing its part in ensuring that Barbados remains clean and beautiful, the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley urged persons to take responsibility for their surroundings as well.

The Prime Minister was proud to announce that the first two, much needed garbage trucks arrived in Barbados on Tuesday, with ten more due within the next two weeks and more to come within a matter of weeks.

“But no matter how clean the Sanitation Service Authority makes this country, if we as individuals and households don’t agree to take responsibility for our surroundings as was done by our grandparents and great grandparents, we will not have a clean nation,” she said.
“My friends, our people, our family, our friends are returning home next month, from the 1st of January, and we have a duty just as you do in your home to keep it clean, to keep Barbados spotless.”

She urged persons to have the same spirit of cleaning that they usually have during the month of December, where they were taught to clean for the whole month and add the cleaning up of their surroundings outside of their home to their list of things to clean.

Mottley assured that the Government would be making arrangements to have persons in charge of different districts to assist with the cleaning up duties. She revealed that persons would be contracted to keep the communities and along the highways clean, so as to minimise incidences of flooding, as well as keep the nation how they believe it ought to look.

“My cabinet will tell you this is the one thing I complain about incessantly because I know as a people and nation, we can do better,” she said.

She asked the young people to be the eyes and ears and help the Government to achieve this goal as they aim to keep the nation clean, especially with We Gathering 2020 around the corner.