Point Fortin May­or Clyde James has con­firmed that this year’s Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions have been sig­nif­i­cant­ly short­ened, with some an­tic­i­pat­ed events left off the cal­en­dar due to chal­lenges in plan­ning and bud­get­ing.

De­spite these set­backs, James re­mains op­ti­mistic about the fu­ture of the event, promis­ing changes in the cel­e­bra­tion dy­nam­ics that will be “tak­ing Trinidad by storm.”

In­ter­viewed last Fri­day dur­ing the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion’s mil­i­tary pa­rade, which is one of the high­lights of the cel­e­bra­tions, James said, “We had to cut back a lot of things that we nor­mal­ly have done for our cel­e­bra­tions,” he ex­plained.