The ca­ble car project is sup­posed to cre­ate a tourist site at the fort, a key part of the city's mil­i­tary his­to­ry. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, Dr Tewarie's imag­i­na­tion may be run­ning ahead of cur­rent re­al­i­ty, which is like­ly to put vis­i­tors to the fort in the po­si­tion of de­fend­ing them­selves as vig­or­ous­ly as Gov­er­nor Pic­ton's men if Laven­tille isn't put on a more sus­tain­able foot­ing.

The sud­den, bloody and ap­par­ent­ly un­solv­able crimes of two weeks ago in east Port-of -Spain have sparked a fresh en­thu­si­asm for in­no­v­a­tive think­ing on crime.A rare sit-down ses­sion be­tween Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Leader of the Op­po­si­tion Dr Kei­th Row­ley churned up some old ideas and some com­mon­sense strate­gic think­ing about the known prob­lems fac­ing cit­i­zens in crime-rid­den ar­eas.So po­lice will prob­a­bly get their 300 new ve­hi­cles, more of­fi­cers will be re­cruit­ed, po­lice rapid re­sponse will again be con­sid­ered, CCTV cam­eras will get an ex­pand­ed de­ploy­ment and the great stum­bling block of this cen­tu­ry, the tor­tur­ous and un­pro­duc­tive process of ap­point­ing a po­lice com­mis­sion­er, will yet again come un­der re­view.

Cit­i­zens from east Port-of- Spain made their own de­mands in a pri­vate ses­sion with the Prime Min­is­ter and her elite team of cab­i­net min­is­ters, mak­ing their de­mands for jobs, bet­ter hous­ing and op­por­tu­ni­ties very clear.Nowhere among this litany of de­mands and so­lu­tions, how­ev­er, did any­one ap­pear to re­alise that what Laven­tille re­al­ly need­ed was a ca­ble-car sys­tem. But Min­is­ter of Plan­ning and Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Dr Bhoe Tewarie is cham­pi­oning a plan to build ca­ble car con­veyance from Fort Pic­ton to City Gate.