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From the Trinidad Express:
Govt proposes city status for Arima and Chaguanas
Monday, June 22nd 2009
Chaguanas and Arima will become the nation's newest cities in the Government's proposal for a new system of Local Government, which contains a recommendation for 12 regional governing bodies instead of the existing 14.
In making the disclosure yesterday, Prime Minister Patrick Manning also said the proposal includes a plan for the nation's capital city, Port of Spain, to be expanded to include parts of Laventille, with the only borough remaining in South Trinidad.
"But it will be a new borough that will incorporate Point Fortin and La Brea as one new family," Manning disclosed yesterday.
These are some of the key stipulations contained in the Manning administration's White Paper on Local Government reform, which is to be laid in the Parliament on July 3. Manning disclosed the details of the proposed changes in the municipality boundaries yesterday afternoon, as he gave his closing remarks at the end of the ruling People's National Movement (PNM) special convention on governance at the Chaguaramas Convention Centre.
"These are going to be far reaching proposals, my dear friends, and these are proposals which will be deliberated publicly when the matter gets to the Parliament," he said.
Manning had earlier in the day revealed that the White Paper on Local Government reform would be laid in the Parliament early next month, but did not reveal the details of the proposed boundary changes then.
"We anticipate 12 bodies, 12 Local Government bodies, but that at the level of the municipalities, since we are now revising the system, we are expanding every municipality in the country to include, by and large, new areas that have developed around them, leaving enough lands for development in the municipality itself," Manning said yesterday afternoon.
Manning said that in that regard, Port of Spain would see its eastern boundary stretched northward to the Lady Young Road "so it will take in some of Laventille in it". He then spoke of the "city of Chaguanas" and immediately recognised that some of those attending thought he had made a mistake, since it is still a borough.
"I didn't make a mistake, the city of Chaguanas, my dear friends, that's what we're proposing. We are proposing that Chaguanas be expanded and be made a city. We are proposing also that Arima be expanded to take in all the little areas involving Malabar and others and be the fourth city, another city in Trinidad and Tobago," Manning said to some applause. -JB
Govt proposes city status for Arima and Chaguanas
Monday, June 22nd 2009
Chaguanas and Arima will become the nation's newest cities in the Government's proposal for a new system of Local Government, which contains a recommendation for 12 regional governing bodies instead of the existing 14.
In making the disclosure yesterday, Prime Minister Patrick Manning also said the proposal includes a plan for the nation's capital city, Port of Spain, to be expanded to include parts of Laventille, with the only borough remaining in South Trinidad.
"But it will be a new borough that will incorporate Point Fortin and La Brea as one new family," Manning disclosed yesterday.
These are some of the key stipulations contained in the Manning administration's White Paper on Local Government reform, which is to be laid in the Parliament on July 3. Manning disclosed the details of the proposed changes in the municipality boundaries yesterday afternoon, as he gave his closing remarks at the end of the ruling People's National Movement (PNM) special convention on governance at the Chaguaramas Convention Centre.
"These are going to be far reaching proposals, my dear friends, and these are proposals which will be deliberated publicly when the matter gets to the Parliament," he said.
Manning had earlier in the day revealed that the White Paper on Local Government reform would be laid in the Parliament early next month, but did not reveal the details of the proposed boundary changes then.
"We anticipate 12 bodies, 12 Local Government bodies, but that at the level of the municipalities, since we are now revising the system, we are expanding every municipality in the country to include, by and large, new areas that have developed around them, leaving enough lands for development in the municipality itself," Manning said yesterday afternoon.
Manning said that in that regard, Port of Spain would see its eastern boundary stretched northward to the Lady Young Road "so it will take in some of Laventille in it". He then spoke of the "city of Chaguanas" and immediately recognised that some of those attending thought he had made a mistake, since it is still a borough.
"I didn't make a mistake, the city of Chaguanas, my dear friends, that's what we're proposing. We are proposing that Chaguanas be expanded and be made a city. We are proposing also that Arima be expanded to take in all the little areas involving Malabar and others and be the fourth city, another city in Trinidad and Tobago," Manning said to some applause. -JB
