The Chaguanas Borough Corporation is seeking private sector support for an aerial spraying exercise. Mayor Gopaul Boodhan made the appeal over the weekend, saying there had been an increase of people with flu like symptoms in the borough.
He said an emergency meeting has been scheduled with officials of the Public Health Department and the Chaguanas Health Centre to discuss the matter. The mayor said an aggressive ground spraying exercise to curb the mosquito population and prevent the spread of the chikungunya virus and dengue was ongoing and litter wardens were increasing surveillance of properties in the borough.
Boodhan commended the Couva/Tabaquite/Talparo Regional Corporation for embarking on aerial spraying. He said he plans to ask Chaguanas businesses to help pay for aerial spraying of the many acres of abandoned sugar estates that surround Chaguanas.