Prosperity Park in St. Elizabeth Gets Facelift on Labour Day
By: , May 24, 2023
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Newly appointed Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, and Member of Parliament for St. Elizabeth South Western, Hon. Floyd Green (front, centre), plants an apple seedling during the Labour Day parish project at Prosperity Park in the Parottee community on Tuesday, May 23. He is assisted by Regional Manager of SPM Waste Management Limited, Edward Muir (front, left). Looking on (from second left) are Labour Day Project Coordinator, Marcine Whitter; Assistant Secretary for the Parottee Citizens Association, Debbie Rosegreen; President of the Parottee Community Development Committee, Eric Samuels; and Mayor of Black River, Councillor Derrick Sangster.
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Newly appointed Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, and Member of Parliament for St. Elizabeth South Western, Hon. Floyd Green (right), gets help from Commanding Officer, St. Elizabeth Police Division, Superintendent Kenneth Chin (centre) and his son, Kaleb Chin, in planting a fruit seedling, during Labour Day activities at Prosperity Park in the Parottee community on Tuesday, May 23.
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Mayor of Black River, Councillor Derrick Sangster (right) and volunteer, Shellyann James, bag grass clippings during the St. Elizabeth Labour Day parish project at Prosperity Park in the Parottee community on Tuesday, May 23.
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Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the St. Elizabeth Municipal Corporation, Errol Lebert, plants a tree at the Labour Day parish project at Prosperity Park in the Parottee community on Tuesday, May 23.
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Staff of the St. Elizabeth Municipal Corporation (from left) the Mayor’s Secretary, Avia Parchment; Telephone Operator, Corlecia McKoy and Secretary to the Chief Engineering Officer, Sancha Myers, are joined by Sideman attached to SPM Waste Management Limited, Andrew Foster, in cleaning the grounds of Prosperity Park in Parottee, which was the St. Elizabeth parish project for Labour Day on Tuesday, May 23.The Full Story
Residents of Parottee in St. Elizabeth came out in their numbers on Tuesday (May 23) to give a facelift to Prosperity Park, which was the parish project for Labour Day 2023.
More than a dozen trees were planted at the site in keeping with the theme of the day, ‘Plant a Tree for Life – Promoting Climate Change Mitigation, Food Security and Road Safety’.
The grounds were also debushed, refenced, structures repainted, cleared of garbage and other debris, among other works.
Newly appointed Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining and Member of Parliament for St. Elizabeth South Western, Hon. Floyd Green, who participated in the day’s activities, told JIS News that the planting of trees is a way of mitigating adverse weather due to climate change, which has made the parish more prone to droughts as well as intense rainfalls.
“So, we partnered with the citizens and decided to not only do a full facelift at Prosperity Park but also plant some new trees and to signal a rebirth of this green space here in Parottee,” he noted.
“We have also been focusing on road safety in the area, so we have been doing over our pedestrian crossings, especially those that lead to schools. So, I am very pleased with the support thus far,” he added.
For his part, Mayor of Black River, Councillor Derrick Sangster, said that Prosperity Park, which is owned by the St. Elizabeth Municipal Corporation, is being refurbished to return the facility to its pre-pandemic state where it was a site for local events.
He said there are also plans to set up a craft shop and provide the necessary amenities to make the park a destination stop for tourists.
The Labour Day project received support from the St. Elizabeth Police Division, Social Development Commission, Parottee Community Development Committee, Parottee Citizens Association, St. Elizabeth arm of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission, SPM Waste Management Limited and others.