Tyre shop owner will be fined for littering, says PM

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar con­firmed that all tyres have been re­moved from an il­le­gal dump site at For­ress Park Trace, Clax­ton Bay, and said the tyre shop own­er re­spon­si­ble will face fines from lit­ter war­dens for lit­ter­ing.

The an­nounce­ment fol­lows her tweet last week, which in­clud­ed a video show­ing three men re­mov­ing tyres from a white pan­el van and dump­ing them on the ground. Per­sad-Bisses­sar urged those re­spon­si­ble to re­turn to the area and pick up the tyres.

She said the shop own­er has al­so been in­struct­ed to clean the prop­er­ty and thanked the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice for “serv­ing the de­cent, law-abid­ing cit­i­zens of For­ress Park Trace with pride and pro­fes­sion­al­ism.”

The Prime Min­is­ter called on the pub­lic to take pride in their com­mu­ni­ties and the coun­try, stop il­le­gal dump­ing, clean up af­ter them­selves, and help keep Trinidad and To­ba­go clean and re­spect­ed.