Dumas inspects PoS projects

Dumas and a convoy of about ten vehicles of city councillors and media personnel visited areas in and around the capital, including Sogren Trace Extension, Laventille, Desperlie Crescent, Laventille, Piccadilly Greens, Colville Street, Ariapita Avenue, Independence Square South and Richmond Street.

The tour began at Sogren Trace Extension where a new road is presently under construction.

Dumas and his entourage of about 20 individuals, stopped at the top of Sogren Trace and walked on the unfinished dusty road, trampling mud, stones and rubble, uphill to the corner of Chocolate Alley and Soviet Road.

The project, presently in its sixth phase, is set to be completed by the end of May and has run into costs exceeding $400,000.

As Dumas trekked out of Sogren Trace, villagers shouted, “We want water now,” a problem the minister promised to look into. The minister’s next stop was at the construction of the Port-of-Spain Corporation Home for the Aged at Desperlie Crescent.

Construction of the home started in 2000 with initial costs estimated at about $1 million.

Councillor Peter John said the home would accomodate about 30 senior citizens and is the first of its kind in east Port-of-Spain and also the first home for the aged that the Local Government Ministry has ever built.