This group’s visibility is temporarily set to public to make it easier for members to find and join. It will return to private in 2 weeks.

This group exists to protect the road leading to the Tacarigua Forestry facility, a stretch that has been targeted by illegal dumping for years by people from as far as Tunapuna and D’Abadie.

Since 2018, this community, originally a WhatsApp group of about 200 hikers, cyclists, and residents, has installed CCTV, put up No Dumping signage, and worked with the Tunapuna/Piarco Regional Corporation, the Arouca Police Station, and the Praedial Larceny Squad to hold offenders accountable. Two major clean-ups have already removed truckloads of garbage from the area.

None of this would have happened without Gregory Bowyer, whose years of advocacy and reporting turned this from a small resident concern into a recognised community effort.

This group works alongside our WhatsApp chat, not instead of it:

• Reports and photos are organised and searchable here, instead of scrolling back through weeks of messages
• Notifications are more relevant, you’re alerted to what matters to you, not every message in a 100+ person chat
• Direct connection to TPRC and other agencies on the platform itself
• Access to the wider HOATT network of environmentally conscious groups facing similar issues
• Nothing gets lost, files and evidence stay archived here for reference

What you can do here:

• Report a dumping incident, with photos or video, using HOATT’s ticketing and reporting system
• Share footage from the CCTV or your own phone as evidence
• Flag repeat offenders or vehicles for the group and TPRC to act on
• Suggest or join upcoming projects, including the Poui tree planting initiative along the road

If you’re new to the area or this cause: this road matters to the people who hike it, bike it, and live near it. Every report you file helps build the case that keeps enforcement moving.