Sando Mayor wants ‘foreigner’ street names changed

YVONNE WEBB

SAN Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello is calling for the renaming of streets in the southern city which glorify people who committed crimes against humanity, hundreds of years ago.

He identified two streets named after two British governors who committed atrocities against the city and citizens back in the 1880s. They are Irving Street and Freeling Street, which lie parallel to each other near Irving Park in the San Fernando West constituency. Regrello said Governor Irving was the man who initiated the Canboulay riots which spread to San Fernando on Coffee Street in 1884.

He said this happened on the same spot where the police attempted to bring an end to celebrations on Carnival Tuesday night causing him (Regrello) to angrily confront police.

Regrello said Governor Freeling, who first redeemed himself by confining police officers to the barracks for the two days of Carnival to allow masqueraders a free reign after they were brutalised on J’ouvert morning, later fell out of grace when he rejected a petition to improve the San Fernando waterfront and the water supply in the then Borough.

Regrello called on councillors and aldermen at a City Corporation statutory meeting yesterday, to do their research and come up with more suitable names perhaps of people who would have contributed to the development of San Fernando.

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