Group of women seeks to confront garbage situation, manufacture cardboard boxes

Long before the government announced an intention to ban the importation of styrofoam boxes in an attempt to address the chronic problem of garbage, a group of woman so fed-up of the clogged drains and trenches and litter around the city and its environs decided to do something about it and set up what they call Bag Bay Inc.

By the end of this month the company, which was registered last year and is managed by an all female board, hopes to be one of the major suppliers of cardboard boxes and paper bags. Bag Bay is managed by Nola Sinclair of Managing Paper Trail; Gillian Yow of Caribbean Stress Management; Lucia Desir-John of D&J Shipping; Rose Horatio,