Residents of Sion Hill, St James have come together to beautify their community.
Members of the Sion Hill Community Group gathered from as early as 8 a.m. on Saturday to remove the overgrown bush and shrubbery that was blocking the pedestrian walkway on the bridge by Greaves Road, Westmoreland, St James.
Organiser and president of the Newbury Province Cricket Club, Roy Bishop told Barbados TODAY that concerns were raised about the safety of pedestrians.
“The government doesn’t have the money to come and do the work so we decided we will come together and do it to give back to the community,” Bishop said while adding that the project was initiated to tackle possible theft and assaults in the dimly lit district.
Bishop also said that it was the responsibility of the community to ensure that their surroundings were clean and safe.
“We said this is our community, this is our grounds and we landscape it … we look after it ourselves,” Bishop stated.
“We don’t want to get a situation where somebody gets robbed so we want to prevent it from happening. We don’t want the idea of someone getting robbed and then we say ‘Oh shoot’so we decided we will do it now,” he added.
Keep up the good work.Stay on top of things like this in the community.
Fantastic! More communities need to do this! Healthy activity, promotes community spirit and safety. The community will also take pride in the beauty of their surroundings and be happy.
Wish more community projects would go back to this
Awesome ! ! !
Where was Edmond Hinkson? Dealing with the mess at the prison?
The good thing is that the Community is doing it for themselves and not for the tourists.
SHOTTA BOSS says :
” Wish more community projects would go back to this ”
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