As the two-month mark ap­proach­es since the Gov­ern­ment ter­mi­nat­ed over 10,000 work­ers from the Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP), res­i­dents of west Trinidad are start­ing to feel the im­pact.

A 73-year-old res­i­dent of Rich Plain Road, who wished to re­main anony­mous, said yes­ter­day she had to take mat­ters in­to her own hands by clean­ing the ar­eas where CEPEP teams once worked.

“You see up there in a mess since CEPEP leave from up there; it’s me and my son who does clean there, and if I doh clean it, no­body else will clean it,” she shared.