Castries City Council gets overwhelming support from corporate sector
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Contact: Claudia Monlouis
Monday, September 22, 2008 – The Castries City Council (CCC) is commending the private sector’s overwhelming response to its attempts to engage in beautification projects around the city of Castries.
Some of the areas designated for sponsorship by the corporate sector are said to be in dire need for upliftment. Operations Manager Vaughan Lewis Fernand said the City Council is reassured at this support offered by the business sector.
“We have approached them, and the response has been very good. So in time you will see all our parks and roundabouts and so on being carefully maintained and manicured, because corporate organizations have come forward and were quite willing to assist us. In fact, when we did send out invitations for the maintenance of roundabouts it was really over subscribed,” he said.
The Council has meantime issued a strong warning to those who endanger beautification efforts with bad practices of littering and even worse—using public areas as outright toilets. The council, Lewis Fernand said, is not prepared to tolerate perpetrators and that the bye laws of the CCC will be enforced.
“People have just gotten into the bad habit of dropping things and not paying much attention to its negative effect on the landscape, and so we've had to make some effort to revise our bye laws relating to littering. While we're talking about littering, we are talking about urinating and defecating as well. This has become a matter of serious concern to the Council and citizens as well,” said the CCC operation’s manager.
The CCC official said the beautification projects will include the planting of tropical flowers and palm trees within the city. |
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