Ot­to Car­ring­ton

Se­nior Re­porter

ot­to.car­ring­ton@cnc3.co.tt

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) can­di­date for Port-of-Spain South, Kei­th Scot­land, has con­firmed a mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar fish­ing fa­cil­i­ty is in the works for the Pro­duc­tion Dri­ve area.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia in re­sponse to crit­i­cism over a per­ceived lack of de­vel­op­ment, Scot­land em­pha­sised that the project has al­ready gone out to ten­der and will ben­e­fit res­i­dents of Pro­duc­tion Dri­ve, Pi­o­neer Dri­ve, and Sea Lots.

“The up­grad­ed fish de­pot will bring re­al de­vel­op­ment to the area. It’s a sig­nif­i­cant step for­ward, and I was in­stru­men­tal in push­ing for this,” Scot­land said yes­ter­day.

Scot­land made the com­ment in re­sponse to re­cent crit­i­cisms and com­par­isons over the lack of de­vel­op­ment in the con­stituen­cy made dur­ing a walk­a­bout by Op­po­si­tion can­di­dates. He dis­missed the UNC claims of a “clean sweep” by the ri­val par­ty.

“They had a truck and about sev­en peo­ple,” he not­ed, con­trast­ing it with the com­mu­ni­ty sup­port he re­ceived dur­ing his own event in the area.

“I had more peo­ple sit­ting with me with­out of­fer­ing any­thing. That speaks vol­umes.”

Scot­land al­so de­fend­ed his pres­ence and com­mit­ment to the con­stituen­cy, say­ing he has con­sis­tent­ly en­gaged with res­i­dents and con­tin­ues to pro­mote uni­ty and re­spect across all com­mu­ni­ties.

He ex­plained that al­though he was seen in the com­mu­ni­ty yes­ter­day, it wasn’t part of a cam­paign ac­tiv­i­ty.

“I re­spect all faiths and ob­serve sa­cred days. That’s why I wasn’t wear­ing any PNM jer­sey,” he ex­plained.

Scot­land reaf­firmed his ded­i­ca­tion to build­ing stronger com­mu­ni­ties and dis­missed Op­po­si­tion claims.

“The on­ly sweep com­ing will be from the PNM,” he de­clared con­fi­dent­ly.