Senior Reporter[email protected]Hundreds of workers in Port-of-Spain have been sent home from landscaping, street cleaning and community maintenance programmes, leaving the capital struggling to maintain essential services, Mayor Chinua Alleyne has revealed. Speaking at a Port-of-Spain Statutory Meeting yesterday, Alleyne said more than 500 workers were dismissed and replaced by just 12 staff members — a move he warned could jeopardise public health, sanitation and public safety. “These cuts will create serious challenges for the City Corporation, particularly as we prepare for Carnival 2026,” Alleyne said. “In the city alone, more than 500 people who were doing day-to-day work cleaning and maintaining our communities have been sent home. Garbage collection funding in one municipality nearly doubled, while Chaguanas Borough recorded an increase of more than 120 per cent in its infrastructure budget, he said.