Team Observerjoined forceswith JET andseveral otherteams to cleanFort Rocky alongthe Palisadoesstrip. (PHOTO:GORGETTEBECKFORD)
September 23, 2014
All-island clean-up
Saturday’s observance of International Coastal Clean-up Day — coordinated globally by the Ocean Conservancy and locally by the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) — attracted thousands of volunteers to sites across the island. Here are scenes from Kingston, Hanover, Westmoreland and Montego Bay.
Marlon Forrester (left) and Mary Watson (right)report the items they picked up from the beachto team leader Michelle Farquharson. GarySmith and Kimone Thompson look on.(PHOTO: GORGETTE BECKFORD)
Michelle McDonaldWilliams displays theremnants of a backpackwhich washed ashore.(PHOTO: GORGETTEBECKFORD)
Members of the Jamaica Japan Exchange and Teaching ProgrammeAlumni Association teamed up with teachers and students ofKensington Primary to clean up the popular Forum beach inPortmore, Saturday.
Maurice Taylor of GraceKennedy Financial Group secures agarbage bag before placing it on the collected heap.(PHOTO: GORGETTE BECKFORD)
Beaches Negril HotelManager Radu Mot alsoplayed his part and carriedoff bags of garbage fromthe Johnson Town beachin Hanover.
Tourism and entertainment minister Dr Wykeham McNeill assiststhe ministry’s Danielle Patterson and volunteer Dr Lorraine Lewis toremove trash from a clean-up site on the Palisadoes. Over 70members of staff from the ministry and its agencies joined the morethan 8,000 people who volunteered at over 130 sites across theisland. The Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF), an agency of theMinistry of Tourism and Entertainment, is a major sponsor of theinitiative, donating $7.3 million this year.
Employees of China Harbour Engineering Companystuff plastic bottles into garbage bags from theRocky Beach along the Palisadoes strip.
Volunteers remove plastic bags,bottles, old tyres and other garbagefrom the Shipwreck beach along thePalisadoes Strip in observation ofInternational Coastal Clean-Up Day.
