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The Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, Michelle Ben­jamin, has af­firmed that vil­lage and com­mu­ni­ty coun­cils will ben­e­fit tremen­dous­ly from her min­istry’s ini­tia­tives de­signed to breathe new life in­to com­mu­ni­ties and en­sure their progress.

Min­is­ter Ben­jamin met this week with ex­ec­u­tive mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go As­so­ci­a­tion of Vil­lage and Com­mu­ni­ty Coun­cils (TTAVCC) to dis­cuss ways to im­prove lo­cal gov­er­nance and com­mu­ni­ty en­gage­ment.

Dur­ing the meet­ing, the min­is­ter an­nounced plans to in­crease ac­cess to new­ly formed Vil­lage Coun­cils, which are ex­pect­ed to be de­mo­c­ra­t­i­cal­ly in­stalled in the com­ing months. This move is part of a broad­er strat­e­gy aimed at re­vi­tal­is­ing com­mu­ni­ty de­vel­op­ment.