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Thousands came out for the annual Point Fortin Borough Day Military Parade today.

It’s one of the Borough corporation’s main events for its month-long celebration, children came out in large numbers to witness the parade and see first-hand the various arms of law enforcement, service vehicles and animals.

In attendance was the Mayor of Point Fortin and the area’s Member of Parliament, who in the lead up to the celebrations were at odds over the hosting of separate events.

Reporter Cindy Raghubar Teekersingh tells us more.

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00:14point 14 came alive as it usually does for the annual military parade as part of the point 14
00:22borough day celebrations on Friday morning families crowded the sidewalks children looked
00:29on in absolute delight to see the nation's servicemen and women march through the streets
00:36ahead of the parade point 14 mayor clyde james and point 14 member of parliament ernesto kizar
00:43separately walked and greeted those who came out it's a similar crowd that we normally get where the
00:48period is in point 14 it's a highlight of our body celebration and the residents are looking
00:54look forward to this day in particular and we are glad we're able to pull it off again this year
00:59both men greeted each other mayor james says despite their earlier complaints to the government of
01:05financial limitations in hosting the events he says they were able to pull it off
01:16was there any resolution to that back and forth between financing this particular event there was
01:23in any event you always have challenges but we as a people we work and make things happen
01:28what is carnival without a little back and i and what is borrowed without a little back and i am
01:33saying
01:34that um we had to do what we had to do both both parties the borough day is in the
01:40it's under the
01:41auspices of the mayor and his council and i i respect that but at the end of the day i
01:46am the member of
01:47parliament duly elected by elections of april 28 20 25 and in the spirit of um i am always all
01:56for cooperation
01:57i mean you all know where i came from i always like to operate in good faith some had raised
02:02concerns
02:03over the mp holding a week of events separate to those hosted by the borough but mp kizar says he
02:10will
02:10not be distracted as he focuses on serving the constituents who voted him into office we expect a
02:18real bumper crowd profusion especially during the performance time reggae tuesday chutney wednesday
02:25and the end even even the saturday itself i have to remain focused and the focus is there's a lot
02:31of
02:32work the fix point four there's a lot of work to be done and we have to best stay focused
02:37i really
02:37can't get involved in all this that are all the small talk and all the back and all i don't
02:42have
02:42time for that i have to stay focused cindy raguba tika singh tv6 news
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