Golden Grove, Nabaclis and Haslington are the most recent communities to benefit from the Ministry of Natural Resources “A Clean Environment Project”.
A release yesterday from the Ministry said that members received a number of items to assist the community in maintaining cleanliness. Fifteen streetlights for President’s College Road, eleven bins and a quantity of seedlings and fruit trees were donated to the communities, the release said. Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman, handed over the items on behalf of the Ministry along with a cheque for $480,000 to assist with the cleaning of areas in Golden Grove, as well as the Golden Grove and Nabaclis Cemeteries.
The “A Clean Environment Project” was inaugurated in April 2017, with the “Best Kept School Competition” in Region 5, and has been helping communities through the provision of bins, streetlights, seedlings and fruit trees, to help them promote cleanliness and green growth. Some communities have also benefited from signage, garbage bags and garden and cleaning tools including cutlasses, wheelbarrows and rakes. To date, over fifteen communities have benefitted from the successful project.
The mining and logging communities of Mabaruma, Kamarang, Port Kaituma, Baramita, Mahdia, Puruni and Linden as well as Kwakwani, Coomacka and Orealla have received support under the project as well as the towns of New Amsterdam, Rose Hall and Corriverton. Best Village in Region Three, Good Hope Cemetery and Play Ground in Region Four along with some communities along the coast also benefitted from supplies, while tree-planting and beautification exercises were done in Iwokrama and at Cashew Grove in Lethem, Region 9.
