BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – IN the interest of maintaining good sanitary conditions of some of the recreational areas in the Federation, last Saturday (Feb. 13) the Rotary Club of St. Kitts had organised a clean-up exercise of the Friar’s Bay Beach in the South East Peninsula.
Following a conversation with a concerned citizen who spoke about the exercise and expressed his disgust at the people who litterd the beach with large amounts of garbage, SKNVibes contacted the Club’s President Bobby Morris for an invited comment.
Morris told SKNVibes that some members of the Rotary Club of St. Kitts had observed the deplorable state of the Friar’s Bay Beach, noting that it was littered with garbage, and a decision was taken to have it cleaned.
The Rotarian said that in addition to cleaning the entire beach, a fairly large amount of garbage was removed from the roadway leading to the beach.
He explained that the clean-up exercise started at approximately 7:00 a.m. with some 30 participants drawn from the Club and its two junior arms, the recently-formed school-based Interact Club and the Rotaract Club, as well as a group from the Children’s Home.
The Club’s President said the exercise, though disgusting, was a fruitful one. He pointed out that it not only provided the participants an opportunity to make the beach more habitable but also making them aware of the senior organisation’s attempt to forge togetherness for worthy causes and its commitment to the community.
“It was one of the Club’s objectives to have the beach cleaned as well as to bring our Rotary family together, more in particular the younger members, to show them what we really stand for and to do our civic duty.”
Morris said it is a known fact that, like many other islands in the Caribbean region, St. Kitts and Nevis’ economy is heavily dependent on tourism and that visitors would not frequent recreational or sight-seeing areas that are not environmentally friendly.
He is therefore calling on all those who visit the beaches for picnics and or other recreational purposes to act more responsibly in the disposal of their garbage.
Morris advised that they utilise the garbage disposal bins provided and, if none is present, they must walk with garbage bags or other receptacles and dispose of their garbage on return to their homes, as was the practice in the not too distant past.
