Mayor looks at homeless problem

The mayor announced earlier in January, during the City Corporation’s first statutory meeting, that there was a move to get the homeless off the streets as some persons viewed them as physical threat on citizens. “We can’t take the homeless off the streets just because we would like to.

There is a process to be followed which involves the Ministry of Social Development, Ministry of Health, Local Government...

We have been having meetings with these institutions and stakeholders to determine how best to deal with it,” he said.

The mayor said he was looking at some of the options that were available to us. We would love to have a home for the homeless so they can find a place where we can look after them and maybe assess them properly.