The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

Surely after four administrations spending millions on community clean-ups, someone would understand this is a useless exercise as the community messes up right after the last truck and tractor leave the area.

Ministry of Environment will spend an undisclosed capital sum on this totally wasteful exercise. Unless the community dumping is controlled through a strict disciplined issuing of citations and prosecutions this is yet again a wasted programme.

Minister Miller… please put energy into self-cleaning - putting pride into your community - clean your own dirtiness and lets simply stop wasting hard to find money.

When last was there a prosecution for littering? Oh, yes, we have an Environment Court - that is a joke who was it at Bahamas National Pride lobbied and lobbied, then DPM Frank Watson eventually got the Court and guess what…nothing happened.

It costs nothing to take your old washing machines, refrigerators – large garbage that the truck cannot carry – not a dime, but guess what go wherever you like and garbage - washing machines, refrigerators, cookers, bed-mattresses are piled up on vacant lots.

Clean today, by tomorrow new garbage back on same cleaned spot yesterday, at the cost to the Public Treasury. We learned anything?

Most littering if checked, will trace who dropped it... rather than cleaning it away, find who dropped it and prosecute and require that person to clean it up at his or her costs.

J HALL

Nassau,

December 7, 2022.