I've been thinking about the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) and its paradigm shift in cleaning. It reminds me of the group of maids in the US who come in and very quickly, your home is "clean and beautiful".

The NSWMA is doing a similar job. I am asking, however, that the NSWMA implement an educational component, with enforcement. To date, I have not seen any such programme under way, let alone enforcement. It breaks my heart to see an expensive SUV in front of me from which papers are being thrown out of the windows. No matter how much we clean the highways and byways, our people just don't know how to get by without a massive educational programme on keeping our environment clean.

I look forward to the NSWMA providing that competence and partnering with the citizens, instead of alienating them. That will never work; it is simply short term.

Incidentally, where are the garbage receptacles for garbage in the towns? Garbage has been continually dumped on the corner of my street for the last four years. A ritual takes place there morning and evening by Hanover and Wellington streets in Spanish Town. I have decided to leave it alone and stop being abused after three years of trying to end this.

Sligoville, one of the the most beautiful places in this world, has no way to dispose of garbage, hence people burn, throw their garbage into the gullies and go on their merry way. What a way to treat the environment!

I must give credit to the NSWMA. After my many, many letters regarding the filthy roadways on both sides leading to Sligoville, I was pleased to see women sweeping and raking up that area in the last few days.

I am, etc.,

ROSEMARIE GREENE

spntwncitizensagv@cwjamaica.com

2 Hanover Street

Spanish Town