OMG Digital Magazine OMG Issue 298 1st March 2017 COMPLETE | Page 42

OMG Digital Magazine | 298 | Thursday 1 March 2018 • PAGE 42
Assemblyman Shomari Hector, Assistant Secretary of Community
Development, Enterprise Development and Labour shows off his
dance moves during an African dance performance at the Black
Panther screening (February 21, 2018).
STOP ILLEGAL DUMPING
Illegal dumping of garbage is a threat to the environment.
That’s why the Division of Infrastructure, Quarries and Environment
is committed to doing all it can to reverse this trend, according to
Secretary Kwesi Des Vignes.
Des Vignes said the Division is committed to upkeeping Tobago’s
mantra of “clean, green, safe and serene”, and to curbing illegal
dumping.
“I’ve gotten reports of our environment police tracking down persons
because [they] would have dumped personal correspondences among
the items on the side of the road, and the police would have been able
to track down people to clean up areas,” he said.
Des Vignes said dumping is also on the rise at the Bon Accord Estate.
“They are becoming bolder and bolder and I’m saying to the media and
the public, that the police can’t be everywhere,” he said, adding: “We
have to start being our own litter wardens”.