Easter Festival Garbage still on VG Recreation Ground
“It’s heading to one month since the final day of the festivities and with all the successes they recorded they haven’t gotten one thing right, and that is cleaning up that ground,” one resident told this news site.
It’s not winded talks since as recent as last weekend photos were captured showing the evidence. “We spoke to so many members of the committee and yet we haven’t seen any movement that’s why we decided to come to this point of informing the media,” the resident stated.
Valiant efforts to reach the Chairperson of the Virgin Gorda Easter Festival Committee Ms Sasha D.A. Flax and the Public Relations Officer Mr Jerrel A. George have been futile over the past days.
Residents said that the main concern about the ground not being cleaned properly is the fact that the facility has since been frequented by several sporting disciplines including groups of young children.
“When festival done if you do a walkthrough we usually pick up buckets of nails and that is not a good thing for people practicing different sports on that ground,” added the concerned resident.
Several of the stallholders did confirm with this news site that they had paid a fee for after clean-up while they had the responsibility of removing their structures. But some of the blame is being laid at the feet of some stallholders.
According to the concerned residents stacks of pallets used by both the committee and stall holders are at the ground. “You fetch it here you could take it out. All kinds of things can be caught up between those pallets and the children are playing around them too.”
In addition disposable tents used are on the ground and bins are over-spilling while other disposable wastes are scattered all around. “We just finish the island wide cleanup to send a message that we need to keep the island clean and we are not leading by example.”
One concerned resident suggested that in the interest of their own health and safety some of the sport groups should spend some time cleaning the ground. “While you wait on the Festival Committee to clean, your players are at risk more than anything being stuck by nails and such like,” the resident suggested.
It is alleged that the matter of cleaning up the Recreation Ground after festival activities is one thing that has had a common trend for years in succession.
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18 Responses to “Easter Festival Garbage still on VG Recreation Ground”
Does anyone in authority, have any sort of concerns for those children safety, I am a parent and I am grossly disgust with this everlasting problem, this not some new, but rather 40 yrs plus and counting with this problem. I was also faced with problem as an athlete myself and now these children.
I find this ridiculous, budget passing for everything but nothing can reflect on the SISTER ISLANDS and their needs for proper facilities and to ensure the safety of these youths; when will this ever be resolve.
We can start resolving this problem by;
1) Having Easter Festival at different sight;
2) Provide the people and youths of community with proper sport field with the basic necessities, at a different sight; or
3) Have a committee to ensure that grounds are properly clean and is safe to conduct sporting activity.