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Saturday, May 3, 2025

TTMA: Griffith on right track

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News Desk
2340 days ago
20181205

The T&T Man­u­fac­tur­ers’As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) has com­mend­ed Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith for the progress made in polic­ing across the coun­try since he took up the po­si­tion in Au­gust.

The busi­ness group not­ed the many pos­i­tive out­comes in po­lice op­er­a­tions in re­cent times, in­clud­ing ma­jor drug busts and ap­pre­hen­sion of kid­nap­pers.

“We be­lieve that the sig­nal which is be­ing sent to the crim­i­nals in our so­ci­ety is that it is no longer busi­ness as usu­al as it ap­pears that Com­mis­sion­er Grif­fith has en­gaged his man­date with­out fear and or favour,” the TTMA said in a state­ment.

“The TTMA sup­ports the Com­mis­sion­er in his crime-fight­ing en­deav­ours and stands ready to work with him as re­quired in any ca­pac­i­ty. The swift ac­tion of Com­mis­sion­er Grif­fith and his teams serve to re­build con­fi­dence in the po­lice ser­vice as we all work to­geth­er to­ward a safer Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

The group said the man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor is do­ing all it can dur­ing the Christ­mas sea­son to en­sure that goods are avail­able on the shelves.

TTMA Pres­i­dent Christo­pher Al­cazar said “while it is not busi­ness as usu­al for any of us as we strug­gle with com­pet­i­tive­ness both re­gion­al­ly and glob­al­ly, Trinidad and To­ba­go can and should be the lead­ing econ­o­my in the Cari­com and wider re­gion and we must col­lec­tive­ly work to­geth­er to re­solve all mat­ters that are cur­tail­ing this pos­si­bil­i­ty, be it ease of do­ing busi­ness, port chal­lenges, in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions is­sues and crime.

“The ap­point­ment of a Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er who is lead­ing from the front, fight­ing against crime, sends a pos­i­tive sig­nal to­ward man­ag­ing the crime chal­lenge there­by restor­ing faith and con­fi­dence in those who are tasked with serv­ing and pro­tect­ing the cit­i­zens of our coun­try,” he said.

Al­cazar said the jus­tice sys­tem must be equal­ly as swift in its ef­forts so that the back­log in the sys­tem is al­le­vi­at­ed and the crim­i­nals are ul­ti­mate­ly held ac­count­able for their ac­tions.


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