The Guyanese business community is not alone in its frustration and jitteriness over the proliferation of violent crime directed at lucrative targets.
Long used to an out-and-out gun culture and a high murder rate, Trinidad and Tobago’s business community is now calling on the authorities to better regulate the security sector following the Wednes-day, November 27, TT$3 million robbery that left a security functionary dead.
Like their counterparts in Guyana, business support organisations in Port of Spain have been voicing a loss of confidence in police security arrangements. Earlier this week a senior T&T Chamber of Com-merce official said at a fraud seminar that the chamber wants government to take up the call for enhanced security “as a very urgent issue.”
The local private sector, particularly the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI)