Clean up Barbados by November 30 – PM issues challenge to Bajans Loop Barbados

Black Immigrant Daily News

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley wants Barbados clean again and by Independence Day.

The challenge was issued recently by the country’s leader who disclosed that she is displeased about the change in Barbados’ cleanliness since the country reopened fully.

what we gine do bout Barbados? Clean it up!

From the platform at the Annual Conference, she said:

“We had this country looking clean and good here the other day. Wuh really gine on now?

“Nooooo! What’s going on? Can’t work!”

Stating that some parts of the road are overrun with bush and trees as well as litter, she said that ministers Santia Bradshaw for Transport and Works and Adrian Forde for Environment and National Beautification are inundated daily with cries as “people call and complain every day”.

PM Mottley said this is not the Bajan way of years gone by.

“Bajans in front yuh house belong at you. When we come up, everybody used to clean in front of them. Not true? Everybody used to clean behind them. Not true? Everybody sometimes would help the woman next-door if she couldn’t do it herself. Not true? We have to go back to that.

“And I want to say that you feel different when you go and bathe and put on clean clothes and if you’re a woman, you put on a lil lipstick and you feel different. If you are a man, you put on a lil cologne and you feel like somebody gie look at. But you don’t feel so when yuh come out the backyard and yuh sweating and mud all over the clothesand oil all under yuh fingernails. Nooooo! And if you bringing somebody home at you, wuh you does do? Clean up the house!

“So if you do it home at you and Barbados is your home, what we gine do bout Barbados? Clean it up!”

And she gave a timeline of a few weeks in which she would like to see a turnaround. “It will only change when it becomes a habit. We got between now and the end of the year, I would really like the end of November…meet me halfway and let us do it.

The country’s leader also took a minute to salute Environment Minister Forde saying, “Over 60 sites for Clean and Green in this country, God bless you, my brother.” But she did not forget his predecessor, Trevor Prescod and added, “Trevor you started it before Adrian, God bless you too.”

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