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Monday, July 28, 2025

PM assures relocation for 13 households during revitalisation project

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Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley leaves the the Spotlight on Urban Development launch at the Hyatt Regency on Monday.

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley leaves the the Spotlight on Urban Development launch at the Hyatt Regency on Monday.

SHIRLEY BAHADUR

Gail Alexan­der

The 13 house­holds which will be af­fect­ed in Phase Two of the East Pic­cadil­ly re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion project will be ac­com­mo­dat­ed in units from Phase One, ac­cord­ing to Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley.

Re­ply­ing to Op­po­si­tion ques­tions on the is­sue in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day, Row­ley said there should be no anx­i­ety on the slum clear­ance project. He said the Pic­cadil­ly project be­ing done by the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion iden­ti­fied a por­tion for Phase One of the project and no res­i­dent will be dis­placed in that phase.

He said a rolling process will be used in re­lo­ca­tion. Row­ley al­so as­sured that East Port-of-Spain res­i­dents have “ex­cel­lent PNM MPs”.

On an­oth­er query, Row­ley said the first phase of the dis­tri­b­u­tion of the COVID-19 vac­cines would in­volve front­line work­ers in­clud­ing health­care work­ers, peo­ple over age 60, those with dis­eases such as di­a­betes, hy­per­ten­sion and im­muno-com­pro­mised dis­eases like lu­pus and can­cer.

Row­ley boast­ed that the Gov­ern­ment’s “out­stand­ing com­pe­tence in” han­dling the COVID 19 is­sue would al­so ap­ply to the vac­ci­na­tion pro­gramme.

He said the tem­po­rary To­ba­go cor­rec­tion fa­cil­i­ty for COVID-19 pris­on­ers was closed since there were no more such COVID-19 cas­es.

He al­so re­it­er­at­ed the cat­e­gories of those ob­tain­ing ex­emp­tions to re­turn to T&T. Row­ley said Gov­ern­ment had fo­cussed ini­tial­ly on those who were “caught ac­ci­den­tal­ly” out­side when T&T closed its bor­der and is now deal­ing with oth­ers who want to come home.


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