The Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion is ap­peal­ing for more traf­fic war­dens to deal with the back-to-school traf­fic to­day, Mon­day as the new aca­d­e­m­ic year be­gins.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia, Ch­agua­nas May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed said the war­dens are ap­point­ed by the Min­istry of Works. He said traf­fic can take quite a toll on com­muters, es­pe­cial­ly dur­ing peak hours.

May­or Mo­hammed said nu­mer­ous prin­ci­pals al­so call his of­fice for as­sis­tance to deal with traf­fic jams in front of their schools. He said the war­dens can great­ly as­sist with the con­ges­tion. How­ev­er, this can on­ly be re­alised if the Min­is­ter of Works makes the rel­e­vant ap­point­ments and he is hop­ing to have a dis­cus­sion with them soon for it to hap­pen.

Mean­while, on Fri­day the of­fice of the May­or part­nered with El­e­gance Stu­dios run by Gabriel Perez to give back-to-school hair­cuts to stu­dents. Mo­hammed said sta­tionery and vouch­ers were al­so dis­trib­uted. Perez, a Venezue­lan na­tion­al who moved to Trinidad and To­ba­go some five years ago, has his bar­ber stu­dio set up at Ca­roni Sa­van­nah Road. Perez said he was on­ly too hap­py to give back to the com­mu­ni­ty he now calls home.