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Thursday, July 10, 2025

PM elec­tion promise

Borough status for Siparia

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The con­stituen­cy of Siparia, which is rep­re­sent­ed in the Par­lia­ment by Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, is in line to be­come the next and fourth Bor­ough in T&T.

This is among a bag of good­ies Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and oth­er Gov­ern­ment min­is­ters rolled out when the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) band­wag­on rolled in­to Siparia on Thurs­day night in sup­port of its nine can­di­dates con­test­ing the lo­cal gov­ern­ment elec­tions for the Siparia Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion.

Row­ley al­so spoke about the re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion of the en­er­gy and agri­cul­tur­al sec­tors in Fyz­abad and Siparia to po­si­tion these two key com­mu­ni­ties to grow. He said there was the po­ten­tial to get back in­to in­dus­tri­al de­vel­op­ment which they are in the process of ex­plor­ing and to bring some of the land in­to food pro­duc­tion that could sup­port the school feed­ing pro­gramme and cre­ate a down­stream ex­port in­dus­try.

Row­ley said he be­lieved the com­mu­ni­ty of Siparia could ben­e­fit from lo­cal gov­ern­ment re­form, pat­terned af­ter the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly mod­el, which his ad­min­is­tra­tion in­tends to roll out over the next four years.

"It is my ex­pec­ta­tion that this is the next com­mu­ni­ty in T&T that would rise to Bor­ough sta­tus and you will elect a May­or in Siparia. You have all the mak­ings of a town­ship and you have such tremen­dous and won­der­ful his­to­ry," Row­ley told cheer­ing sup­port­ers.

He said the com­mu­ni­ty has all the com­po­nents to ac­com­plish this feat, in­clud­ing the in­fra­struc­ture, res­i­den­tial com­po­nent, schools, hos­pi­tal and health fa­cil­i­ties.


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