Shas­tri Boodan

Free­lance Cor­re­spon­dent

Res­i­dents of Ca­roni Cen­tral can ex­pect im­prove­ments in their wa­ter sup­ply in the near fu­ture, new­ly elect­ed MP David Lee promised yes­ter­day.

Lee, who has been ap­point­ed Min­is­ter of Hous­ing and Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment in the Cab­i­net of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, spoke about his plans for the con­stituen­cy dur­ing his vic­to­ry mo­tor­cade through Preysal, Cou­va.

He said he had al­ready ini­ti­at­ed dis­cus­sions with of­fi­cials from the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) to ne­go­ti­ate an in­crease in the wa­ter sup­ply, which has been lim­it­ed to twice a month for the past nine years.

“They have giv­en me the as­sur­ance that a bet­ter sup­ply of wa­ter will come to the peo­ple of Ca­roni Cen­tral in a very short time,” Lee said.

In ad­di­tion to wa­ter sup­ply, Lee said he would pri­ori­tise the re­con­struc­tion of the Preysal Gov­ern­ment School and Palmiste Gov­ern­ment School. Both schools have been op­er­at­ing out of tem­po­rary fa­cil­i­ties for sev­er­al years—Preysal at the Preysal Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre for more than a decade, and Palmiste at the Long­denville Gov­ern­ment School and the Ed­in­burgh Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre.

He al­so high­light­ed road in­fra­struc­ture as a key con­cern.

“They don’t want any­thing else,” he said, em­pha­sis­ing that res­i­dents were ea­ger for tan­gi­ble im­prove­ments in road con­di­tions across the con­stituen­cy.