The mayor of Port-of-Spain is breaking the glass ceiling. The city has been a political bobolee for a number of years with successive administrations being reluctant to take decisive, hard, unpopular and practical decisions to bring about some order. How long will the city wait for a systematic plan to relocate or reform vagrants? People talk and talk and criticise and now they condemn the mayor for tackling problems that have plagued the city for generations.
All on a sudden people are missing their favourite vagrant. We avoid passing close to vagrants on the streets all year, for various and obvious reasons, but now we are asking the mayor where to find them this Christmas. We cannot know when or if a vagrant is a homeless one or not, or if he is sane or semi-sane, violent or non-violent, but for those who feel it is inhumane to remove and relocate the vagrants, I suggest to the mayor that he makes an "adopt a vagrant" offer to the public.
Ramesh Marajh
Palo Seco