Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the author(s) do not represent the official position of Barbados TODAY.
by Gwen Archer
I walk on Spring Garden Highway at least four mornings per week. Invariably, I encounter plastic cups from fast food outlets, food containers, old clothes at the side of the road, and the occasional burst bag with garbage beside the road. On more than one occasion I have seen people throw empty containers from moving vehicles.
On another occasion a few years ago, about four or five brainless louts who had seemingly attended some show at Kensington Oval were walking along Spring Garden in the early morning hour and overturning garbage cans into the road for no apparent reason other than they were walking on their brains.
A car had to swerve off a can and almost collided with another. I do not know if it is something in the water, in the air that we are breathing, or doctors are now slapping babies in the head rather than their buttocks at birth, but there is a culture of nastiness and lawlessness in this country that has become overwhelming. Perhaps, our young people look at their politicians and other would-be leading citizens, and say that if they can do it at their level, then so can we at ours.
