Dix­ie Ann Dick­son

Act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er James Philbert says many lessons were learnt and er­rors were not­ed by his of­fi­cers af­ter the Fifth Sum­mit of the Amer­i­c­as in Port-of-Spain. He said of­fi­cers were bet­ter ready for the up­com­ing Com­mon­wealth Heads of Gov­ern­ment Meet­ing (CHOGM) which will be held in No­vem­ber in Port-of-Spain. Philbert was speak­ing at an ap­pre­ci­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny for po­lice of­fi­cers at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion of­fice in Port-of-Spain on Mon­day.

The of­fi­cers were award­ed for their com­mit­ment and per­for­mance dur­ing the re­cent Fifth Sum­mit of the Amer­i­c­as. Po­lice of­fi­cers from the First and Sec­ond Di­vi­sions were award­ed medals. Philbert said, "We speak with ease as we ap­proach CHOGM." He said many lessons were learnt and er­rors were recog­nised. Philbert said he was con­fi­dent that T&T could be called the sum­mit cap­i­tal of the West­ern Hemi­sphere be­cause the coun­try was recog­nised in­ter­na­tion­al­ly for its suc­cess.

Echo­ing Philbert's view was Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Mar­tin Joseph who said that many peo­ple doubt­ed but he knew the coun­try would have been suc­cess­ful. He said the on­ly chal­lenge was to sus­tain this stan­dard. Joseph said af­ter CHOGM the na­tion would see sus­tained re­sults.