Rad­hi­ca Sookraj

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is urg­ing all cit­i­zens to plant flow­ers at their homes, of­fices and com­mu­ni­ties.

Speak­ing to her con­stituents at the Pe­nal Quinam Gov­ern­ment School on Sun­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said when­ev­er she trav­elled she al­ways mar­velled at the clean­li­ness and beau­ti­ful sur­round­ings of in­ter­na­tion­al coun­tries. "Why can't we all work to­geth­er to make our coun­try like that. We have to clean up and beau­ti­fy our sur­round­ings. Why can't we all plant flow­ers every­where and make our homes, vil­lages and com­mu­ni­ties beau­ti­ful?" Per­sad-Bisses­sar asked.

She said since she launched her Clean and Beau­ti­fy T&T pro­gramme two weeks ago, sev­er­al cor­po­rate spon­sors had start­ed pro­vid­ing equip­ment and man­pow­er. On June 27, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said she hoped to in­spire every cit­i­zen to beau­ti­fy their sur­round­ings at home. She said she had al­ready li­aised with lo­cal Gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tives to pro­vide as­sis­tance in the clean up dri­ve. "I want every cit­i­zen to clear up the bulk waste at their homes and to plant flow­ers and plants around their homes. Trucks will be made avail­able to tow away in­dus­tri­al and bulk garbage from peo­ple's prop­er­ty," Per­sad-Bisses­sar said.

She added: "We want the chil­dren to get in­volved with this. Since we came in­to gov­ern­ment peo­ple are ex­cit­ed to work and we are there to help. We want all the old peo­ple to al­so get in­volved in this project be­cause as a team we can all make our coun­try a bet­ter place." She not­ed that Gov­ern­ment would look at pen­sion re­form once Par­lia­ment was con­vened. The Prime Min­is­ter al­so ex­plained that build­ing T&T would take place from the bot­tom up, be­cause it was im­per­a­tive that the Gov­ern­ment con­sult with the cit­i­zen­ry at every lev­el to ef­fect pos­i­tive changes in T&T.