Shas­tri Boodan

The PNM and UNC be­gan walk­a­bouts in com­mu­ni­ties through­out Cen­tral Trinidad yes­ter­day.

Rack­eal Bis­soon, 24, who is con­test­ing the Ch­agua­nas West seat af­ter be­ing giv­en the nod by the PNM in ear­ly June, said dur­ing a walk­through of Or­chard Gar­dens, that Ch­agua­nas West was an area that ne­glect­ed by their UNC MP.

“The peo­ple are com­plain­ing about no rep­re­sen­ta­tion and no vis­i­ble MP. I think that is some­thing I can give to the peo­ple.”

Bis­soon said drainage is­sues are a ma­jor prob­lem for the peo­ple, es­pe­cial­ly in the com­mu­ni­ty of Fe­lic­i­ty.

She said a pump was re­cent­ly in­stalled and com­mis­sioned by Works Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan in Fe­lic­i­ty to help mit­i­gate flood­ing in that area. Bis­soon said she has been get­ting a 50-50 re­sponse where some per­sons are wel­com­ing her, while some are scep­ti­cal.

Bis­soon chose not to make any com­ments about her UNC op­po­nent Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly who would be tak­ing over from out­go­ing MP Gan­ga Singh.

Bis­soon, a res­i­dent of Mamoral, is no new­com­er to elec­toral pol­i­tics.

Incumbent Couva South MP Rudranath Indarsingh greets residents during a walkabout in Dow Village, California..

Shastri Boodan

She con­test­ed the 2019 Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tion for the seat of Ca­paro/Mamoral on the Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (CT­TRC).

In Cou­va South, in­cum­bent MP Rudranath In­dars­ingh, start­ed walk­ing twice a day since he was giv­en the nod to rep­re­sent the UNC for the third straight time.

In­dars­ingh said lo­cal gov­ern­ment bod­ies were starved of re­sources and the Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Bill was thrown out of the win­dow when the Prime Min­is­ter dis­solved the Par­lia­ment.

He said “It is a com­mon is­sue of lo­cal gov­ern­ment ne­glect from the point of view of roads and drains. The CT­TRC is suf­fer­ing for fund­ing. Sport­ing fa­cil­i­ties where pavil­ions have col­lapsed. Un­em­ploy­ment, eight plants on the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate have been moth­balled, closed. The young peo­ple con­tin­ue to ask where they can find jobs. The PNM promised lo­cal gov­ern­ment re­form in their man­i­festo. This gov­ern­ment has had the suc­cess be­ing the most de­cep­tive, dis­hon­est gov­ern­ment that has not de­liv­ered on their promis­es.”