Tobago House of Assembly (THA) chief administrator Dr Ellis Burris has described Scarborough as a "urinal" and a "shanty town". He said: "Generally I would say sometimes Scarborough is like a urinal. People go and they urinate everywhere. You passing and you have a problem. "You park behind FCB you have a problem, you park behind the Scarborough mall you have a problem.
"You coming down from the top of Castries Street and the taxi stand we just built there people can be seen urinating behind it." He added: "We have a serious problem in Scarborough and we are in the process of dealing with it. The assembly has agreed to improve Scarborough in a particular way to bring it to a proper town." Burris said the Public Health Department had been asked to identify sites in Scarborough where toilets could be erected to ensure the sanitary condition of the town was uplifted.
He said the assembly also was embarking on building and improving streets to ensure there was a smooth flow of traffic between Northside Road and the centre of Scarborough, improving Bay Street and joining it with Gardenside Street. He said improvements also would be done to the broadwalk from Carrington Street to the Milford Road Esplanade as soon as the taxi stand was moved to its new location.
He said the fish port would be improved, the barge in the port would be removed and a recreation park constructed in the area.
Burris said loans would be offered to businesses that may not have enough funds to enhance their structure, adding that the shanty town in front of First Citizens would be removed along with other illegal structures throughout Scarborough.
"It is our intention to deal with those immediately and we are putting Scarborough on red alert that we will be coming to deal with it," he added. Dr Burris said owners of the illegal structures should take steps to put them in order. "We are expecting to change the face of Scarborough in the very near future," he stressed.
