Mr. Nat Hodge
Editor, The Anguillian

Dear Sir:

STOP THE LITTER

I am writing as a concerned tourist on your island, having witnessed two events that have disheartened and disappointed me so much that I am compelled to write.
On this past Easter Monday my wife and I attended the boat races at Meads Bay where we sat on the beach taking in the festivities.

There was a family sitting beside us, eating barbeque. When the children were finished with their meals and asked their mother what they should do with the plates, the mother told them to take them down the beach and bury them! I could not believe that the mother would educate her children this way. It would have been easy to walk up to the restaurant behind and dispose of the trash in the proper way, rather than littering the beautiful beach area.
On that same day when we returned home, we heard a lot of loud music and voices coming from the beach close by. The next morning I took a walk down to that beach and was infuriated by what I saw. There was litter everywhere – beer bottles, caps, plastic plates, forks, knives, cups, a dirty diaper, food wrappings, all trash that was not there the day before. In only a few minutes I filled a garbage bag. Why could not the partiers have done the same thing and taken their garbage away with them? There are countless bins along the road in which to drop trash.
I could not believe that people act so irresponsibly as to litter in this manner. This is a beautiful island and it is the responsibility of all of us to make sure it stays that way.

Thank you,
Paul Corfield
Toronto, Canada
497 - 0505

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