Ot­to Car­ring­ton

Se­nior Re­porter

ot­to.car­ring­ton@cnc3.co.tt

Ven­dors who op­er­ate at the Mara­cas Look­out have now hired a watch­man to look af­ter their be­long­ings, af­ter thieves made off with their tents on Wednes­day.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Bob­by Singh, of Eden’s Sweet and Sour Hotspot, said he was still com­ing to terms with what hap­pened.

Singh said, “Well, ac­tu­al­ly, we were very shocked af­ter be­ing here for 22 years, and noth­ing of this na­ture has ever hap­pened. To come here and see the tents gone, we were speech­less. I learned of this in­ci­dent at five o’clock in the morn­ing, and three hours lat­er, I put up this tent, and I have a brand-new tent be­ing con­struct­ed, as we speak.”

With crime now knock­ing on their doors, Ali said they were now hir­ing an ex­tra eye at night.

He said, “Well, ac­tu­al­ly, as of last night, we have come to­geth­er and we have hired what you call a watch­man, some­body to just be here any night and so on. So far, we have this stall to­geth­er with the rest right here. We have de­cid­ed we are go­ing to find the mon­ey and pay our watch­man every night to over­see every­thing for us at night.”

The Mara­cas Look­out is con­sid­ered a tourist spot to stop for items on the way to or from the Mara­cas Bay beach.

Singh al­so com­mend­ed the po­lice, say­ing: “I am very hap­py with the po­lice. You know, they are not God. They can’t be here every minute of the night. They do pass three or four times a night and make a lit­tle cir­cle, and I am very hap­py with the ser­vice. The po­lice are do­ing well, and as I said, they can’t be all over the place at the same time, you know. So, we have to be flex­i­ble with them at the same time. But they have been very good.”

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands the po­lice are ac­tive­ly in­ves­ti­gat­ing the in­ci­dent.