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The Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion (CBC) is lead­ing the way when it comes to in­fra­struc­tur­al works, says May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed.

He was at the time ad­dress­ing the CBC’s an­nu­al awards func­tion at the cor­po­ra­tion at Cum­ber­batch Street, Ch­agua­nas, on Tues­day. 

Mo­hammed said 53 roads had been paved, along with an equal num­ber of box drains, and the mar­ket and sev­er­al recre­ation grounds had been up­grad­ed.

“We are the over­achiev­ers in Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment. We are ex­tra, not ba­sic,” he said.

He said UNC and PNM coun­cil­lors strived to de­liv­er to the burgess­es.

“To­geth­er, we cre­ate bet­ter com­mu­ni­ties,” he said.

Mo­hammed said cul­vert cross­ings at Ch­agua­nas had been re­paired and the flood­ing along the Main Road had been stopped.

“It was like a Christ­mas mir­a­cle that came ear­ly,” he de­clared.

He said the cor­po­ra­tion was al­so com­mit­ted to mak­ing the Ch­agua­nas Mar­ket safer. He said in 2025, the cor­po­ra­tion will re-open the abat­toir af­ter years of clo­sure.

On the night, 71 or­gan­i­sa­tions and in­di­vid­u­als in the ar­eas of busi­ness, pol­i­tics, com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice, cul­ture and the arts, sports and ed­u­ca­tion were award­ed. The awardees, the may­or said, had shown their com­mit­ment to lo­cal and na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment.