Residents of Plaisance on the East Coast came together yesterday and braved the scorching heat as they tried to clean up a main trench and roads.
Loud music was heard as scores of residents gathered around the trench looking on as others plunged in with their cutlasses, trying to clear the excess vegetation that had grown and clogged the water flow.
Eslyn Campbell, a resident of the Plaisance community, explained that Sunday’s flooding and the clean-up campaign that has been storming parts of Georgetown motivated them to try to improve their community.
She explained that the activity had started on Sunday, May 31, 2015 and has been ongoing since. She praised the cooperation of the residents as she explained that all of the volunteers are residents of the community.
“The guys that in the trench and doing most of the hard work, they work in the bush. Who can’t clean or working give monetary donations or cook or provide refreshments. I’m happy at the turnout really. Considering we are doing all of this on our own”, she said, pointing out that they plan to clean the entire trench that stretches through Plaisance.
Joseph Forde, one of the young men who was involved in the exercise said that it was time that the citizens start playing a vital role in keeping their country clean. “We just decide to do a thing cause de village need to clean up. So we just come together as a team, as Plaisance youths, to get the job done”, he said as he explained that they plan on continuing the activity every two days if the donations and assistance keep flowing.
Additionally, a tree had fallen, completely blocking a road which prevented the residents from accessing other parts of the trench.
