LETTER: Toilet facilities are needed in St. John’s and our prominent tourist sites

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Dear Mr Fernandez

According to the records, so far, you have been recognized as the best tourism minister, the nation has ever seen.

Evidently, the number of tourists coming to our island under your tenure have increased exponentially. Of course, kudos must be given to you and your marketing team for the hard work put in to get these tourists to our beautiful paradise.

The stakeholders involved in the tourism product such as the vendors, the law enforcement, the taxis, entertainers, the beautiful beaches and our hospitable hostesses at the restaurants & hotels, all cannot be excluded from the high commendations.

Additionally, our health minister Mr. Molwyn Joseph should also be given high kudos for ensuring that we have a state of the art hospital in place and his initiative of erecting such neat rubbish bins at strategic points in St. John’s to encourage both the residents & tourists to keep the city clean.  Most of these bins are still standing today.

Now with that been said, I think it is long overdue that toilet facilities should be installed at strategic points in St John’s and our main tourists sites,  such as Devils Bridge, the beaches etc. A collaboration needs to be done between you and the health minister.

It is extremely sad and of poor taste that at various areas within the city and including our prominent tourist sites, there is this aromatic (wrenk ) scent of human urine along with the sight of human faeces deposited which certainly makes the area unsightly.

I am of the view that the installation of toilets can be used to meet human needs ( local & tourist ) and simultaneously  used as a revenue maker, which can be used to maintain themselves and its surroundings.

Presently, our paradise is an envy and hence, if we are really working towards an economic powerhouse then all ” I’s ” should be dotted and our ” T’s ” crossed.

Alex

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4 COMMENTS

  1. The writer’s observation is valid and will help to enhance our tourism offering to the world and also our communities. This suggestion should be given serious consideration with a view to implement.

  2. POOR ALEX, you must be living in fantasy land Max Fernandez and Molwyn Joseph must be laughing at you stupidity. How much businesses are are benefitting from the arrivals. I hope none of them get seriously ill send gave to go to the horse-pital

  3. Indeed, how can we be welcoming visitors to our shores and have no toilet facilities for them. Even for the locals they are critically needed. It’s time for us to get with the program

  4. ABLP with TWO terms in office and always talking up the financial growth in tourism and the tourism industry in Antigua; and yet the toilet 🚻 facilities in Town are virtually non-existent and what’s available are health hazards.

    REMEMBER, WITNESS WITH YOUR OWN EYES AND NOT WHAT THE GOVERNMENT TELLS YOU.

    DEM NAKED SO TILL …

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