Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar joined citizens Sunday on a national cleanup drive putting on work clothes and getting down to clearing garbage and debris in the start of a new campaign to keep Trinidad and Tobago clean and beautiful. As she made stops at various locations, she announced that people who continue to litter would face stricter penalties.
"We would look at strengthening the litter warden system and strict penalties with respect to those who continue to break the law. As long as they break the law, we would have to enforce the law...
"I don’t think we have paid enough attention to the environment and so we will have a legislative package to deal with that," she said. Persad-Bissessar said.
She said workers of the community-based Environment Development and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP) and the Unemployment Relief Programme (URP) workers be responsible for sustaining the program, titled Clean Up and Beautify Trinidad and Tobago.
"I want to thank all of you - the corporate sponsors and the individuals - who came out and heeded our call to clean up and beautify this great land of ours," she said.
"Today is the beginning, it is not the end and we must continue this work together. I am so pleased with the patriotism that has been demonstrated," she declared.
Persad-Bissessar's last act for the day was to release fish into the Petrotrin dam at Clarke Road, Penal. "We cleaned up the Petrotrin dam and we have some fish to place in dam to keep the environment clean and keep the ecosystem going," she said.
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