Mayor calls for more aggressive and humane laws for street dwellers

Port of Spain Mayor Louis Lee Sing has slammed the legal process pertaining to street dwellers.
Eighty four street dwellers who were taken off the capital city’s street on Thursday appeared in court yesterday. They appeared before Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar and Senior Magistrate Lucinda Cardenas-Ragoonanan during a special sitting of the court.
The charges laid against them ranged from loitering to possession of paraphenilia for drug taking.
Lee Sing said “it is not just question of street dwellers anymore. We have a mixture of people and it is not a good package of laws. And we simply have to get them off the street and rehabilitate them.”
“It is my hope that we can come with more aggressive and humane laws instead of the all encompassing process,” Lee Sing said.
Lee Sing has vowed to clean the streets of the homeless.