San Fer­nan­do May­or Ju­nia Re­grel­lo wants the San Fer­nan­do Hill to be re­moved from un­der the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty of the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and giv­en to the City Cor­po­ra­tion.

Re­grel­lo was speak­ing with the me­dia at the Har­ris Prom­e­nade, San Fer­nan­do, on Mon­day, dur­ing a vis­it by Venezue­lan Am­bas­sador Al­varo Sanchez Cordero.

Re­grel­lo took Cordero on a tour of the Si­mon Bo­li­var bust on the prom­e­nade and oth­er sites in San Fer­nan­do, in­clud­ing the Wa­ter­front and Skin­ner Park.

Ex­plain­ing that the San Fer­nan­do Hill fell un­der the am­bit of the min­istry, the may­or said, “I hon­est­ly be­lieve that it should re­al­ly fall un­der the City Cor­po­ra­tion and lo­cal gov­ern­ment re­form will give us a win­dow to ad­dress the min­istry in hand­ing over the hill to San Fer­nan­do, so we could look at San Fer­nan­do Hill as a rev­enue earn­er, as a tourist at­trac­tion and for op­por­tu­ni­ties in en­ter­tain­ment and oth­er­wise.”

Cordero, who was vis­it­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go for the first time, said while he was high­ly ap­pre­cia­tive of the Si­mon Bo­li­var bust in San Fer­nan­do, he was con­cerned about its cur­rent con­di­tion.

He said the bust “de­serves to be in a bet­ter state” and that they would be work­ing on hav­ing it re­fur­bished.

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