The City of Port of Spain is clearing the streets of vagrants, mentally ill persons and and other "socially displaced" individuals. But the mayor of the Trinidad and Tobago capital denies that he is doing it in preparation for the November Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).
A similar exercise was conducted prior to the Summit of The Americas in April and the Manning government had erected a wall to hide the slums on the fringe of the city.
But Mayor Murchison Brown told the Trinidad Express this is nothing new and it is not to sanitize the city for the foreign leaders. He insisted that this aggressive drive is an on-going operation.
"You all only now seeing it, but we doing this for a while now," he said but could not say when it started.
"I can't even remember when it was started, but it is an initiative by the Port of Spain City Corporation to assist the St Ann's Hospital and the walk-in mental facility," he told the paper Wednesday.
Brown insisted that this process was done almost on a daily basis..
"We use our ambulance to pick them up and drop them off. If they are mentally ill, we carry them to St Ann's, if they are not, we take them to wherever they have to go," he said.
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