Tas­sa, iron and melody rang out at Clifton Hill Beach yes­ter­day, as Point Fortin MP Ernesto Ke­sar launched Point Fortin Bor­ough Fu­sion, al­though the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion is yet to launch the of­fi­cial Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions.

De­spite the Fu­sion sit­ting out­side the cor­po­ra­tion’s an­nu­al pro­gramme, Ke­sar said the ac­tiv­i­ty, which mir­rors the Fla­va Vil­lage held in Port-of-Spain dur­ing the Car­ni­val sea­son, is not in­tend­ed to com­pete with of­fi­cial Bor­ough Day ac­tiv­i­ties but to en­hance them.

The launch, held at The Pavil­ion, drew spon­sors and stake­hold­ers in a fes­tive set­ting, though there was a no­table ab­sence of May­or Clyde James and mem­bers of the bor­ough coun­cil. The ab­sence comes against the back­drop of on­go­ing con­cerns about fund­ing for Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions from the Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment.