Based on the reports that continue to emanate from the media in Trinidad and Tobago on the crime situation in the twin-island republic, they suggest that much of the country’s private sector, it would seem, believes itself to be a specific target of violent episodes, and it would appear to the country’s Business Support Organizations (BSO’s) that individual businesses and business owners are now completely preoccupied by the crime wave.
Among the considerations that appear to have derived from what is reported in sections of the T&T media as a sustained and ruthless crime spree is that, to a considerable extent, the police have been nowhere near as effective as it ought to be in pushing back the incidents of attacks on businesses by well-armed attackers, so much so that both sections of the media and the general public are making no secret of what they believe is as much a serious law-enforcement deficiency as it is a concerted effort by violent criminals to impose their will on the business community a whole.