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Sunday, July 13, 2025

What the people want

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GUardian Media
2146 days ago
20190830

Tou­s­saint Singh, bar­ber, Nel­son Street, Port-of Spain:

I will love to see the beau­ty of Port-of-Spain come back and all live as a hap­py fam­i­ly for the ben­e­fit of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Present­ly, Port-of-Spain needs re­vamp­ing and re­struc­tur­ing, moral­ly, spir­i­tu­al­ly and oth­er­wise. It was not like it used to be 60 years ago. Too much crime.

The City Cor­po­ra­tion needs to pay more at­ten­tion to clean­ing the streets and drains which em­anate a foul stench. Be­fore, we nev­er get any stench. This is un­fair as peo­ple have to work in an en­vi­ron­ment that is pol­lut­ed.

Politi­cians should fo­cus on hav­ing new de­vel­op­ment plans for Port-of- Spain and its fu­ture.

Ay­oub Kabli, trades­man, Char­lotte Street:

I've been do­ing busi­ness for 20 years in Port-of-Spain. It has al­ways been the heart­beat of the Caribbean and not on­ly Trinidad. You can get any­thing you want here, it's a won­der­ful place, it's very cos­mopoli­tan, busi­ness­men and mer­chants come from all over.

Port-of-Spain is a very nice place. I love it. I was born in Mo­roc­co, this is the clos­est thing to home to me. I love this coun­try.

Get rid of the va­grants, va­grancy is a very bad prob­lem. They're mak­ing the place dirty, uri­nat­ing all over the place in front busi­ness­es, that's the on­ly eye­sore.

You can mark any­where on Char­lotte Street, one day you park on the left, next day it's right; you just have to read the signs.

Lin­con “Crip­ple” Grif­fith, bar­ber, Char­lotte Street:

It's a com­bi­na­tion of fac­tors why peo­ple from all over the coun­try come to town. Char­lotte Street is known for bar­gains and good prices, it's sup­posed to have more va­ri­ety than every­where else and more choic­es.

Crime is not on­ly an is­sue for Port-of-Spain, but the coun­try in gen­er­al.

Kendon Joachim, 32, fire­fight­er, Dun­can Street:

Not every­body could af­ford to go and shop in those two con­glom­er­ate su­per­mar­kets.

There are cer­tain busi­ness­es on Char­lotte Street that sell sim­i­lar prod­ucts and cater for a cer­tain brack­et of peo­ple from the sur­round­ing ar­eas and be­yond.

I want to see more rep­re­sen­ta­tion from our re­spec­tive MPs and coun­cil­lors and in­ter­ac­tion with the peo­ple on the ground.

Neil Wil­son, pen­sion­er, 71, Dun­can Street:

In my time go­ing to school, it wasn't called South East Port-of-Spain, it was called Mar­ket School or East­ern Boys Gov­ern­ment School.

We were in­to steel­pan with Blue Di­a­monds, com­ing from school we went to the pan yard.

This kept us oc­cu­pied and we didn't have time for crime.

The mu­sic was some­thing to stim­u­late our sens­es, we would mem­o­rise about ten to 20 tunes which was enough to keep us out of trou­ble.

What I would like to see for the youths is an em­pha­sis on ed­u­ca­tion.

Aadil Ho­sein, Man­ag­er Ho­sein's Roti Shop:

We have three branch­es in Port-of-Spain for 30 plus years. The first branch of Ho­sein's was on Queen and George Street, the In­de­pen­dence Square and Hen­ry Street branch has been there for more than 20 years and the Char­lotte Street branch has been there for 15 years. The on­ly de­ter­rent we have is crime and it is the main is­sue fac­ing all our shops.


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