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Ot­to Car­ring­ton

As Port-of-Spain marks 111 years of civic sta­tus, May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne is us­ing the mo­ment not on­ly to ho­n­our the city’s de­mo­c­ra­t­ic lega­cy but al­so to push for­ward a strong call for com­pas­sion and co­or­di­nat­ed ac­tion on home­less­ness in the cap­i­tal.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia dur­ing City Day ob­ser­vances yes­ter­day, Al­leyne con­firmed that the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion had been work­ing with the cen­tral gov­ern­ment to com­plete the long-de­layed as­sess­ment cen­tre at South Quay, which is ex­pect­ed to be a crit­i­cal fa­cil­i­ty to sup­port street dwellers in the heart of the cap­i­tal.