Bridgetown.
The Barbados Light &Power Limited (BL&P) has posted letters to the constituency offices of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) and the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) requesting them to stop placing posters and billboards on its utility poles.
According to corporate communications administrator Jackie Marshall-Clarke, the practice had implications for the safety of lines .
"We acknowledge that it is a general election period but we are asking party supporters to refain placing posters and billboards on the utility poles. If this has already been done, I am pleading that the nails and staples be removed. It is a matter of safety for us, the nails and staples pose a serious danger to linesmen in their operations in required to climb poles, says Marshall-Clarke.
She added that some posters obscured the identification numbers on the pole and in the event of an emergency BL&P crews needed to be able to identify pole numbers.
Marshall -Clarke told Trakker News that while it is necessary during a general elections for poltical parties to display electioneering material but the company's concern was safety first, not only for its employees but for other workmen who had to climb the poles as well.
