Sascha Wil­son

Point Fortin MP Paula Gopee-Scoon says the peo­ple in her con­stituen­cy are be­ing short-changed in the con­struc­tion of the San Fer­nan­do to Point Fortin High­way.Speak­ing at Mon­day night's Peo­ples Na­tion­al Move­ment meet­ing at Mar­ket Square, Point Fortin, she de­scribed the $7.2 bil­lion high­way as a haven for cor­rup­tion.

Gopee-Scoon said the route had not yet been fi­nalised and ne­go­ti­a­tions for com­pen­sa­tion for Point Fortin res­i­dents were in­com­plete."Our peo­ple are be­ing short-changed," she added.She said there was no word on job cre­ation and giv­en the Joint Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil (JCC) re­port she ex­pect­ed more de­lays in the con­struc­tion.

She ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of drag­ging its feet on sev­er­al oth­er projects in the con­stituen­cy, in­clud­ing the con­struc­tion of a new Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal, Chatham Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre, re­pairs to the non-func­tion­al sewage sys­tem in Techi­er Vil­lage and sev­er­als schools.List­ing sev­er­al projects and is­sues she made rep­re­sen­ta­tion on, Gopee Scoon al­so de­fend­ed her per­for­mance as a MP.

She said: "And you know they write and say that the MP don't do any­thing for them. I can tell you I have the ev­i­dence here, in fact ah shame, too many re­quest float­ing from the (south west­ern) penin­su­la and they do­ing noth­ing about it."Gopee-Scoon said among the cor­re­spon­dence she sent were con­struc­tion of the main wa­ter course at Ica­cos, bridge re­pair at South Cen­tral Main Road, the South­ern Main Road Cap-de-Ville to Chatham junc­tion, Jack­son Trace, Buenos Ayres and Chatham Beach Road.