Members of the SSA and NCC as they took part in the Clean and Green Initiative in St. George North yesterday
morning.
Government’s Clean and Green Initiative is off to a great start.
Word of this came recently from Public Relations Officer at the Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) Carl Padmore, during an interview with The Barbados Advocate.
“This is part of the Government’s programme of Clean and Green and St. George North is our first stop. It has been going well so far. We started with the woods just 100 metres away from Flat Rock housing area. We were hampered a bit by the heavy rainfall that we experienced a few days ago, but we are back on-stream with our efforts to have the area cleaned and green,” he said.
“So we would have removed a lot of debris and any bush and garbage that would have been there have been cleared,” he added.
Padmore stated that the programme was a partnership between the National Conservation Commission and the SSA, and the SSA would have deployed four trucks and a bobcat to complement the bobcats and trucks currently being used by the NCC.
Following the clearing of the area, Padmore revealed that the NCC would then be responsible for putting in the ‘green’ in the area, and upon completion of this, the plan was to hand over taking care of the area to the residents.
“We want to empower residents to own these projects as well, by that we mean that after we clean the spaces, we expect them to look after it as they will receive a little recreational area,” he said.
He expressed that the cleaning in St. George North was simply the beginning, as it was their hope to expand the project.
He hoped that the members of the community would be able to work with them as they currently had a few areas earmarked in different parts of Christ Church to receive this type of cleaning and greening activity. (CLJB)
