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Monday, July 21, 2025

Scarborough continues beautification drive, removes illegal vendors

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The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) is seek­ing to curb the num­ber of il­le­gal struc­tures in Scar­bor­ough, in keep­ing with the Scar­bor­ough Beau­ti­fi­ca­tion Project. The pro­gramme be­gan in 2011 and has since de­mol­ished 65 il­le­gal struc­tures.

Speak­ing at the post-Ex­ec­u­tive Coun­cil news con­fer­ence on Wednes­day, sec­re­tary for Health and So­cial Ser­vices Clau­dia Groome�Duke said; "Since 2011, the Di­vi­sion of Health and So­cial Ser­vices, through the Health Com­mit­tee, have been work­ing in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Scar­bor­ough En­hance­ment Project un­der the chief ad­min­is­tra­tor of the THA." How­ev­er, she said de­spite the as­sem­bly's valiant ef­forts peo­ple con­tin­ue to vend in pro­hib­it­ed ar­eas.

"We would have re­moved six­ty-five unau­tho­rised and un­safe struc­tures. What we are notic­ing as we re­move some struc­tures, some peo­ple are go­ing back to that area. We are work­ing as­sid­u­ous­ly on this mat­ter be­cause we know it is against the law to move to an area es­pe­cial­ly those places where we have put up 'no vend­ing' signs," she said.

Groome-Duke said the THA re­fus­es to al­low Scar­bor­ough to be turned in­to a shan­ty town and has writ­ten to the as­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice To­ba­go, Bri­an Headley, to deal with those who break the law."The Health Com­mit­tee and the Di­vi­sion would have writ­ten to the as­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice seek­ing their sup­port in en­sur­ing that we main­tain the law in keep­ing with the is­sue of il­le­gal vend­ing and un­planned de­vel­op­ment of Scar­bor­ough," she said.


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