RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Months af­ter the pool in the com­mu­ni­ty fell in­to dis­re­pair for a third time de­spite tax­pay­ers spend­ing over $1.1 mil­lion on re­pairs, res­i­dents are again call­ing on the Min­istry of Sport and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment to re­fur­bish and re­open the Co­coyea Com­mu­ni­ty Pool ur­gent­ly.

The fa­cil­i­ty, lo­cat­ed in the San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy, was first opened in 2007 as a flag­ship com­mu­ni­ty project of for­mer prime min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning, now de­ceased. Over the years, how­ev­er, the pool de­te­ri­o­rat­ed and was even­tu­al­ly closed.