Shas­tri Boodan

Ch­agua­nas po­lice have been giv­en two me­chan­i­cal­ly re­fur­bished ve­hi­cles to as­sist them in the bat­tle against crime.

Al­though the ve­hi­cles looked some­what di­lap­i­dat­ed and banged up on the out­side, $52,000 was spent to re­store them to sound me­chan­i­cal or­der.

The hand­ing over took place yes­ter­day at the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, fol­low­ing a meet­ing be­tween bor­ough work­ers and mem­bers of the Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC).

CCIC pres­i­dent Richie Sookhai said the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty is fed-up of the crime. He told act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Mc Don­ald Ja­cob that busi­ness­men have on­ly re­ceived promis­es and lit­tle ac­tion.

“We have reached our lim­it and that’s why we have reached out to you in such a way that some sort of re­lief could be giv­en to the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty,” Sookhai said.

Sookhai said al­though more new busi­ness­es are open­ing in Ch­agua­nas, busi­ness­peo­ple are very con­cerned about the in­crease in crime.

He said, “We need that sort of as­sur­ance from the TTPS that some­thing is be­ing done.”

Sookhai said the cham­ber has been lob­by­ing for al­most a decade to get cam­eras up in Fe­lic­i­ty, near the cre­ma­tion site and the riv­er where con­tra­band en­ters the coun­try.

He said Re­pub­lic Bank’s Cou­va branch was bro­ken in­to al­though it is op­po­site the po­lice sta­tion.

“When things like this oc­cur, it sends a shock­ing mes­sage to the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty,” he said.

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