programme entitled Corporate Rockwatchers.

The new programme is a formal invitation to the business community to get involved in the fight against litter.

The new branch of the organisation was launched during the first Corporate Rockwatchers Membership certificate presentation to Centre Reinsurance yesterday.

The presentation was made by Rockwatchers chairman John Buckley to Centre Re employees Phillis Simmons and Brenda Richardson.

Centre Re played a major role in the development of the corporate arm of Rockwatchers being formed and has already been assigned the Ducking Stool area in Pembroke to keep clean.

Mr. Buckley said letters have been sent out to more than 200 local businesses to invite them to join.

"They (Centre Re) participated with their employees in our Marine Clean Up Day,'' Mr. Buckley noted.

He also pointed out that there was no membership fee to join Corporate Rockwatchers. Organisations need only sign up and agree to keep a selected site on the Island litter free.

KBB will then arrange for the litter to be trucked away and properly discarded.

Mr. Buckley said the idea of Corporate Rockwatchers came from the Clean-Up Day. Discussions with staff of Centre Re, like Phillis Simmons and Brenda Richardson, revealed an untapped source of willing volunteers in the corporate community.

"The Corporate Rockwatchers programme thus aims to galvanise these forces into action teams to combat the litter problem,'' he said, adding that KBB hoped other businesses will join in the "campaign to Keep Bermuda Beautiful''.

RE-MEMBER . . . KBB! -- Rockwatchers Chairman John Buckley presents Brenda Richardson of Centre Reinsurance with the first membership certificate for Corporate Rockwatchers, as Vanese Flood of Keep Bermuda Beautiful, Phillis Simmons of Centre Re and KBB president Scott Kitson President look on.

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