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Monday, July 21, 2025

Chaguanas to crack down on errant land owners

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Ch­agua­nas may­or Gopaul Bood­han says the bor­ough would be ex­er­cis­ing the full pow­ers of the cor­po­ra­tion when deal­ing with aban­doned lots.Speak­ing with the me­dia at En­deav­our, af­ter tour­ing 35 in­fra­struc­ture projects that are be­ing un­der­tak­en by the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, Bood­han said aban­doned lots cre­ate many prob­lems for neigh­bour­hoods and are the nest­ing grounds for ver­min, crim­i­nal el­e­ments and garbage.

He said the bor­ough may very well ac­cept the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to clean these lots and charge the own­ers some­where in the vicin­i­ty of $1,000 to un­der­take the work. He said the bor­ough would first serve clean-up no­tices to landown­ers."Noth­ing is wrong to buy land to spec­u­late, but what is wrong is hav­ing those lots and not tak­ing care of it," the may­or said.

May­or warns ofelder­ly abuse

Bood­han is urg­ing burgess­es to be on the look­out for el­der abuse. Bood­han said while the na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty re­mains fo­cused on child abuse, in­stances of el­der abuse are still be­ing swept un­der the car­pet.He was at the time speak­ing with the me­dia yes­ter­day when he vis­it­ed the Ch­agua­nas Home for the Aged at Ca­roni Sa­van­nah Road.Bood­han said in­stances of el­der­ly peo­ple be­ing ver­bal­ly and phys­i­cal­ly abused, ha­rassed for their prop­er­ty and pen­sion must be tak­en se­ri­ous­ly.

He said the el­der­ly must not be cast aside be­cause they are no longer able to con­tribute as a re­sult of their phys­i­cal sta­tus.The may­or said el­der­ly peo­ple have a lot to con­tribute by way of ex­pe­ri­ence, adding that in their youth, many of the el­der­ly would have con­tributed to­wards the de­vel­op­ment of T&T in­to mak­ing this coun­try what it is to­day.


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