Bicycles for San F’do councillors
San Fernandians do not know who their councillors are. So Mayor Fergusson has come up with the bright idea of putting them on bicycles in hilly San Fernando.
There were guffaws recently when it was announced that a police bicycle squad would be created to fight rising crime.
Now San Fernando Mayor Kenneth Fergusson, unhappy that not many people knew the identity of the city’s councillors, with a straight face, announced yesterday he may have to deal with this by “putting them on bicycles”.
Fergusson , a businessman, who is serving his fourth term, noted that the Mori Poll (a British pollster) had placed the San Fernando City Corporation as the best run of the country’s 14 municipalities.
“One of the remarks in that survey was that citizens….some citizens do not know their councillors. Or some councillors. This was a concern to me and this I plan to address in the coming year even if it means putting them on bicycles and let them ride the constituency with the police.”
He did not say whether they would be on bicycles with the Police Bicycle Squad cycling up San Fernando’s steep hills. New Chaguanas Mayor Natasha Navas, who was in the audience, heard the outlandish remark and did her best not to burst out in laughter.
Fergusson’s classic remark was made in his acceptance speech after he was sworn in at City Hall, Harris Promenade, San Fernando and it made the rounds of bars in the southern city.