CEPEP changing young people

THE EDITOR: I would like to compliment the CEPEP programme for it is doing a lot for our country by having the place clean and is helping our young people a lot. The youths are earning an honest dollar and they are engaged in keeping their community and environs clean.

This programme is changing plenty young people who are not focused and doing a number of wrong things. There is no need anymore for them to go astray, being involved in this programme. I would like to give San Juan/Barataria full marks. I passed through San Juan area and the whole community is clean and the sidewalk is lily white. Mr Mc Donald Padmore, Co-ordinator for the programme, is doing a wonderful job in the San Juan area with the programme, making sure the youths are employed and the work is done with quality. We need more like Mr Padmore in the community to mobilise young people and show them what it is to be independent and focused. The country needs a programme like this one. A clean country will bring about a clean thinking people, because cleanliness is godliness. This programme has come in the right time when dirty things like crime, immorality and no respect for elders are taking place.

Mr Padmore’s company has created a beautiful landmark with the Map of Trinidad and national emblems on the Saddle Road on the way to Maracas. The tourists can stop and take pictures of this national monument as a historical site. Family and friends are welcome to the site to see this nationalistic piece of work that was done by the CEPEP Empowerment Programme. I would like to answer Mr Panday’s statement made on Thursday’s daily (Newsday) where he is condemning once more the CEPEP programme, saying that we are only painting pebbles and stones. We would like Mr Panday to know that it is an Environmental Programme, cleaning up Trinidad and Tobago and beautifying the environment, creating small landscapes and painting the pebbles and stones, are just part of the beautification of the landscape. Since Mr Panday is so “fast” to change the name of the programme, we have also taken the initiative to change his party’s name from United National Congress to United National Cockroaches/Culprits. Maybe Mr Panday would like his pebbles painted lily white to match the white hair on his head. We would like the critics to know that we are CEPEP to the bone.

MATTHEW STAR WHILEY
Woodbrook