Life goes on for PoS after traumatic week

Brown described this week as one of the most challenging that Port-of-Spain has had for quite some time. "We had our challenges but life goes on," the Mayor said. He added that there was a bomb scare in the city earlier in the day but the situation soon returned to normal. While he admitted that Monday’s explosion was a "new phenomenon" for the city, Brown said Port-of-Spain had overcome other challenges in the past (such as the July 27, 1990 coup attempt) and he was confident it would rise to the occasion once more.

The mayor also said street vending in Port-of-Spain poses a security threat in the city since it creates crowds and the answer to that was for street vendors to ply their trade in one of the five locations established for vending in Port-of-Spain. Brown said outside of a new structure which will be built to house tenants of the People’s Mall which was destroyed by fire earlier this year, there were no plans to construct new structures in the city for street vendors.