The Ju­ly/Au­gust school va­ca­tion has be­gun and for many Trin­bag­o­ni­ans it marks that time of the year when we take our an­nu­al trip. Some per­sons may be head­ing far away from our shores, while a great many would be jour­ney­ing to the beau­ty of our sis­ter isle.

A vis­it to our sis­ter isle can help to trans­late one glar­ing dif­fer­ence be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go. Clean­li­ness. The beach­es, her­itage sites, road sides and scarce­ly pop­u­lat­ed ar­eas are most­ly clean and al­most free of the ran­dom lit­ter and dump­ing that seems to plague Trinidad. Per­haps it is a dif­fer­ence in cul­ture be­tween the is­lands or maybe To­bag­o­ni­ans ap­pre­ci­ate that clean­li­ness is more ap­peal­ing to tourists, whichev­er it is, there is a stark dif­fer­ence be­tween both is­lands.

T&T has the ben­e­fit of the Lit­ter Act. The Lit­ter Act cre­ates the po­si­tion of lit­ter pre­ven­tion war­dens who are em­pow­ered to is­sue no­tices for lit­ter re­moval and to in­sti­tute pro­ceed­ings for any of­fence com­mit­ted un­der the Act.