Who is responsible?
There are growing concerns as to how cognizant residents are of their role in preserving the tourism industry or that a simple show of common health practices is all that is often needed.
"Tortolians got to stop being so dargon nasty and show some respect for the island." This was an opinion expressed by a man, who claimed to be a "local". At the time, the distraught resident was attempting to find a clean spot in the Noel Lloyd Positive Action Movement Park.
It was sometime between 4 P.M. and 6 P.M. on December 23, 2012. Virgin Island News Online’s reporter, like the resident, was attempting to find a comfortable spot in the park to spend some time on a peaceful Sunday afternoon. It was mission impossible as there was garbage scattered everywhere and to walk away without taking a snap of the distasteful sight was virtually impossible.
The Noel Lloyd Positive Action Movement Park is frequented by tourists and residents alike. Some use it for relaxation, others to grab a bite, spend inspirational moments or, in the case of some tourists, it’s to become familiar with parts of the history of the Territory as it is home to monuments and other pieces that are of great significance to the history of the Virgin Islands.
"How you could encourage people to come and enjoy this park when you got we own Tortolians, yes is we own doing this," said the concerned resident.
While this news site did not capture the name of the resident, his words kept ringing in the head of our reporter as the camera was being pulled out. “You sure right, tek out the picture and go and show the rest of the world… and how dey chasing visitors, tek it out and show them man." He wasn't aware that it was a reporter. By the time an attempt was made to engage the man in a dialogue, he held the hands of a woman and angrily walked out of the park.
Littering the park not only creates a distasteful sight but it is also a health hazard. Several attempts to contact the authorities of the park proved futile but in the absence of a government body's action to preserve the ascetics of the facility, users can do their bit to ensure it is kept in a visitor or user friendly state. It is plain simple, if one uses disposables in the park and the receptacles are filled, how about taking your garbage with you and dispose of it in an appropriate manner.
And to the managing authority, we challenge that the waste disposables in the park be given some serious consideration for better management.
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31 Responses to “Who is responsible?”
Do not blame residents for the park looking so you paying god damn people to maintain the park all the garbage you seeing by garbage bins why the maintence people ain come clean the park why the lights in the park dont work why the bathroom ain working and tortola have a million at one ******* plumbers this is none sense dont blame people the person responsible the damn government need to do there friggin jobs and i sick of the people of the bvi geting blame for people in government who doin $h!t wasting taxs payers money and just being a f*@#$ to the public Tell the god damn cabinet ministers open them eyes and look at the little stuff to not just the bloody economy if people ain doin them job how the place goin function the wickams cay development solid waste department the fourth district rep and minister for health is to blame not the residents them is to blame for not having the proper people and system in place to deal with the maintence of the park
Heaven help us..... Cleanliness is next to Godliness. Judging from what we all see everyday I wonder how close we really are? To the government and the Environmental Health Unit we have a little piece of Legislation "the Litter Abaitment Act" I believe it is, how about we take a closer look at it. Cleaning up after people cost money and the government finances are stretched a little thin, HOW ABOUT HITTING THOSE WHO LITTER WHERE THE WOULD BE EDUCATED QUICKY - FINES FINES FINES. In the case of children who should know better fine the parents or sentence them to community service.
May seem harsh but we do need to start somewhere. Unless of course we want to continue to promote "Nature's NASTY Little Secret".
Nastiness........and a tantaload of them just about town with deafening "noise" talking about how they for tourism as if tourism has nothing to do with their immediate environs..
Pure nastiness!!