‘No more vending in Falmouth’s Water Square’
FALMOUTH, Trelawny — Newly sworn in Mayor of Falmouth Colin Gager warned Wednesday that vending will no longer be tolerated in the historic Water Square section of the town.
Water Square is a pedestrianised area which was designed as a historic recreational park.
“We will have to re-resurect Water Square for what it was meant for. It was not meant for a market place; it was meant for a place where you can come and have recreation. It wasn’t meant for what it is used for right now,” Gager told the
Jamaica Observer shortly after the swearing-in ceremony held at the Falmouth town hall on Thursday.
“ I am sorry, but we can’t function with Water Square like that. “
Gager, who was deputy mayor of Falmouth under the recent PNP-controlled Trelawny Municipal Corporation, formerly the Trelawny Parish Council, said that there are streets outside of Water Square where vending is allowed.
“There are streets that are designated for vending so we will have to cooperate and people will have to go on those streets. It can’t be on the brick that is laid there on the beautiful place, it can’t be,” he insisted.
Meanwhile, Gager, who has been the councillor for the Warsop Division in Trelawny South since 2003, and who served as mayor of the Georgian seaside town from 2008 to 2012, disclosed that he will embark on an exercise to beautify the town as a matter of urgency.
“My number one priority is to clean up to get a facelift; I will have to draft in other people, I will have to call on the Port (Authority) to help me,” he remarked.
He also promised to to improve the traffic management system, improve on the use and development of the transportation centre, and the completion of the new market in the town.
He was nominated unopposed by his predecessor, Garth Wilkinson, People’s National Party (PNP) councillor for the Falmouth Division.
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor for the Duncans Division, Donovan White, was nominated as Gager’s deputy.
The other councillors sworn in during the ceremony were: Phillip Service and Dr Pauline Foster of the PNP, and the JLP’s Dunstan Harper, Jonathan Bartley, Desmond Smith, and Nicole Nugent.
