Chair­man of the Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) Adesh De­onar­ine has show­ered prais­es on CEPEP work­ers for keep­ing the coun­try clean dur­ing Car­ni­val. In a state­ment yes­ter­day, De­onar­ine said CEPEP em­ploy­ees, con­trac­tors and work­ers demon­strat­ed their com­mit­ment to en­vi­ron­men­tal man­age­ment by be­ing ac­tive­ly in­volved in clean-up ac­tiv­i­ties from last Fri­day to Wednes­day.

He said the main pa­rade routes, in­clud­ing Aber­crom­by and St Vin­cent Streets, and the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah were kept free of garbage. He said work­ers were out in full force to en­sure ar­eas were clean. "I am sure every­one un­der­stands the ill-ef­fects of garbage be­ing left on the streets amidst cel­e­bra­tions and this very ser­vice un­der­tak­en by CEPEP should be recog­nised," De­onar­ine said. He added that the com­pa­ny re­mained com­mit­ted to play­ing its part in en­vi­ron­men­tal man­age­ment and through ini­tia­tives, such as CEPEP Ma­rine, the com­pa­ny was look­ing to ex­pand to en­sure that the cit­i­zen­ry en­joyed cul­tur­al and nat­ur­al beau­ty to the fullest.