Chaguanas Mayor welcomes possible city status

Ch­agua­nas May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed says he is sup­port­ive of the Cen­tral bor­ough pos­si­bly at­tain­ing city sta­tus, not­ing that such a ti­tle was fit­ting as the com­mu­ni­ty has grown in terms of size and con­tri­bu­tion to na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment.

In a me­dia state­ment sent to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, in re­sponse to Gov­ern­ment’s pro­pos­al to make Ch­agua­nas a city, Mo­hammed said the town­ship had de­vel­oped from a “cane­field to a city,” not­ing that a change from bor­ough to city was a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone that re­flect­ed the ef­forts, con­tri­bu­tions and achieve­ments of its in­hab­i­tants.

Mo­hammed said Ch­agua­nas has emerged as one of T&T’s pre­mier ur­ban cen­tres. He added that Ch­agua­nas was con­sid­ered for city sta­tus dur­ing the Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship-led ad­min­is­tra­tion in 2010, when then Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­scribed it as “the fastest grow­ing bor­ough at that time.”