Future generations will benefit from renovated Botanical Gardens, says PM

Future generations will get to enjoy a tastefully developed National Botanical Gardens.

So says Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who said plans were in the works to better utilize the Botanical Garden’s 250 acres of greenery.

She made the comments today during a tree planting ceremony in the Gardens as part of the Barbados Workers Union (BWU) Family Fun Day event to celebrate May Day.

Mottley said today’s children would benefit from the planting of trees at the venue, along with other planned projects including an amphitheater.

The Prime Minister had previously revealed that a new Geriatric Hospital would also be built on the site of the Botanical Gardens.

“The world is not an easy place now but just as those who went before us were able to rise above and take on the challenges of the time and to prepare a way for us we believe that we can do so collectively to prepare a way for these kids who joined us in the planting of these trees. In a very real sense all that we are really doing is for them and they will accept in the future their responsibility to do for their children. This is the relay race of civilisation that we all support,” Mottley said during the ceremony where a plaque was unveiled to commemorate the event.

“This is just the beginning. It has taken us two years just to clean up and get here and we are now going to see actual physical structures going in to support us, the amphitheater and the next time we are here hopefully a year from now we will have an amphitheater that is purpose built and made to host events and different types of gardens.”

General Secretary of the BWU Toni Moore gave the assurance that the union would continue to play a key role in promoting and encouraging Barbadians to take care of their environment.

She said it was the union’s intention to plant 24 trees at its Solidarity House headquarters next Thursday.

Moore said there were also plans to sign a Memorandum of Understanding relating to an energy project in Mangrove in the coming days.(RB)