Marlene: Govt wants Capital in Chaguanas

Mc Donald hit the Government for closing two police posts at Plaissance and the Mango Rose housing development, which were supposedly replaced by 24-hour police and army patrols which eventually lapsed. “So crime continues unabated in Laventille, East Port-of-Spain and Trinidad and Tobago,” she said.

Mc Donald challenged Minister of National Security, Jack Warner, to state his crime plan he had promised. She also hit the Government for abandoning the projects for at-risk youth started by the former regime. “Are we to believe that the fair last Sunday is the crime plan for East Port-of-Spain and environs,” she asked of the $4.5 million Laventille Family Day held by Warner at the Queen’s Park Savannah.

She asked if the mandate of the TT Police Service has now changed from managing crime to managing events, even as she cautioned the heads of the Police and Defence Forces not to be seen running behind Warner.

Saying officials could no longer visit that area to try to influence locals with handouts, she said, “The bag of money thing is over.”

She listed many new projects the Government wants to build in central and south Trinidad. These are a university campus, oncology centre, skills and technical centre and a centre for non-communicable diseases at Penal; centres for cycling and aquatics at Couva; a hospital plus offices for Costaat and YTEPP at Chaguanas; a children’s hospital at Preysal; and two libraries at Debe and Mayaro.

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