Al­der­man Leslie Chang Fong has been sworn in as the new deputy may­or in the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion.

The for­mer Petrotrin-Trin­mar em­ploy­ee, who is serv­ing his sec­ond term on the Coun­cil, chairs the Build­ings and In­sti­tu­tions Com­mit­tee and is al­so the Vice-Chair­man of the PNM Con­stituen­cy Ex­ec­u­tive.

The post of deputy may­or be­came va­cant fol­low­ing the Au­gust 10 gen­er­al elec­tions when Al­der­man Saleema Thomas suc­ceed­ed the cur­rent sit­ting MP for Point Fortin, Kennedy Richards, as may­or. Richards won the Point Fortin seat when he con­test­ed the elec­tions un­der the PNM ban­ner.

Raised in the south­ern bor­ough, Chang Fong is the sec­ond of five chil­dren, fa­ther of one and cur­rent­ly re­sides in Ma­haica. An avid read­er and fit­ness en­thu­si­ast, he as­pires for Point Fortin to stand out by lead­ing the way in sports, cul­ture, tourism and per­son­al de­vel­op­ment among young peo­ple.

“In ful­fill­ing my new role, I in­tend to sup­port Al­der­man Saleema Thomas as the first fe­male may­or of Point Fortin in­clud­ing all mem­bers of the 11th Coun­cil. I want to en­sure that good pol­i­cy­mak­ing con­tin­ues at a con­stituen­cy lev­el which aligns to that of the na­tion­al ex­ec­u­tive of my par­ty,” he said.

“I am priv­i­leged to be part of a coun­cil that con­tin­u­ous­ly fos­ters a har­mo­nious and co­he­sive re­la­tion­ship with the Cor­po­ra­tion’s Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer and the ad­min­is­tra­tion”

The new­ly ap­point­ed deputy may­or at­tend­ed the Point Fortin RC School and was a stu­dent of Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege in San Fer­nan­do. He went on to the then-San Fer­nan­do Tech­ni­cal In­sti­tute and stud­ied to be a me­chan­i­cal en­gi­neer­ing tech­ni­cian. Sub­se­quent­ly, Chang Fong at­tend­ed UTT’s Cou­va Cam­pus spe­cial­iz­ing as a Pe­tro­le­um En­gi­neer­ing Tech­ni­cian. He cur­rent­ly holds a Mas­ters in Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tion from Her­riott-Watt Uni­ver­si­ty and is a first-year law stu­dent.