Our last visits to the Centre

One of our last tours to the current facility was taken by the community members of the Rock Dundo Community Association lead by Mr Eric Arthur at the end of March. The group were introduced to the centre through a presentation delivered by Nicole at their meeting point in Rock Dundo, St Michael last year.

Although we will be without the physicality of the display centre, we look forward to continuing to provide a service of information and outreach assistance to the public and its various community groups in the future (no pun intended!).

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Also in early March, Kammie Holder, Board Director along with the assistance of Mr Tyrone Lowe and Mr Michael Thompson and the team of the NCC completed another clean up of Blackman’s gully. This clean up was assisted by two members of the B’s Recycling team prior to the Ministry of Environment Tourism in the gully walk which took place last Saturday. We appreciate the assistance of the NCC, and B’s Recycling to help keep these gully areas clean.

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Clean Up Barbados

Copies of the 3 minute and 30 second videos produced with footage from Clean Up Barbados 2009 by Sanna Allsopp and her team of Studio Caribe TV, were delivered to the Prime Minister and his wife Mrs Mara Thompson, Lars Solderstrom of CBC, Tourism Minister Richard Sealy, Environment Minister Denis Lowe, and head of the BTA David Rice, to invite their partnership to the 2010 event.

Clean Up Barbados 2009 was a great success and the FCT looks to build on this involvement by the public in the 2010 event to be held Saturday September 18, 2010.

Ministries and organisations will be encouraged from next month to partner with this now annual event to ensure a great response! We are looking to double the 700+ participants and the 28 locations cleaned up! Get your friends, colleagues or family members together and start to think of a site you can clean up!

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RBTT/RBC

A meeting was held with Mr Charles Joseph of RBTT on Friday March 15 to discuss a partnership with their organisation. Nicole has delivered a partnership proposal for their organisation’s consideration.

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Brownest Eye Productions

A meeting was held with Melanie Springer of Brownest Eye Productions earlier this week regarding the FCT’s inclusion in a new video series. Things are still being developed, but we look forward to working with Melanie and her team to raise the awareness of the impacts of our waste products.

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Art Splash Cafe

A meeting was held today which Elayne and Billy who are the proud owners of the Art Splash Cafe, recently opening in Hastings, right across from the Band Stand. Elayne and Billy are environmentally aware and welcomed the suggestion to partner with the FCT as we enhance the environmental learning of our young people.

We look forward to developing children’s art programmes with Elayne and Billy with a focus on environment with the possibility of developing an End of Term Art Auction for students as a fund raiser for the students and the centre.

We also discussed the option of inviting the public to create a sculpture from recycled materials to be proudly displayed on their front lawn for all of the south coast traffic to see! We will keep you posted on these developments!

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