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Saturday, July 12, 2025

Saith park gets some “comfort” from US naval crew

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Sashtri Boodan
2137 days ago
20190904

A crew from the Unit­ed States Navy Hos­pi­tal Ship USNS Com­fort (T-AH 20) armed with paint and brush­es on Wednes­day, ven­tured to Ch­agua­nas, where it gave the de­plorable Saith Park Pavil­lion, a much-need­ed facelift.

The U.S. Navy hos­pi­tal ship is now on its sev­enth de­ploy­ment to South Amer­i­ca, Cen­tral Amer­i­ca, and the Caribbean on a med­ical as­sis­tance mis­sion as a re­sult of the hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis cre­at­ed by the on­go­ing po­lit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic in­sta­bil­i­ty in Venezuela.

The vis­it of the ship and its crew were an­nounced by the US of­fi­cials ear­li­er this year.

Isa­iah John, the spokesman for the Ch­agua­nas based roots foun­da­tion, said his or­gan­i­sa­tion part­nered with the crew of the naval ves­sel to as­sist in the restora­tion project to pre­pare for a fam­i­ly-ori­ent­ed event card­ed for Sat­ur­day.

Lt JG Zain Ri­vas, a nurse abroad the USNS Com­fort, told Guardian Me­dia that he was hap­py to be in T&T and was on­ly too pleased to as­sist in the restora­tion project.

Ri­vas said, “I want­ed to help in an­oth­er area that is not med­ical which is paint­ing and clean­ing to help every­body that we can.”

Ch­agua­nas May­or Gopaul Bood­han said he was thrilled that the naval crew could help out since the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion had been strug­gling for funds to in­fra­struc­tur­al work in the bor­ough.

Bood­han said the park had been in dire need of restora­tion.

But even as he wel­comed help for his cash strapped bor­ough, Bood­han al­so took some time to ap­peal to lo­cals and na­tion­als liv­ing abroad to make every ef­fort to as­sist the vic­tims of hur­ri­cane Do­ri­an in the Ba­hamas.

Bood­han said per­sons will­ing to make con­tri­bu­tions should con­tact his of­fices.

Ac­cord­ing to the US of­fi­cials com­fort med­ical teams will pull in to Colom­bia, Cos­ta Ri­ca, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, Ecuador, Grena­da, Haiti, Ja­maica, Pana­ma, Pe­ru, Saint Lu­cia, St. Kitts and Nevis, and this coun­try for work­ing port vis­its.

The ship has been mak­ing vis­its to the Caribbean and Latin Amer­i­ca since 2007.


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