Shas­tri Boodan

The Cou­va Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce (CPLCC) is part­ner­ing with a pri­vate CCTV cam­era op­er­a­tor to help com­bat crime in the area.

Mukesh Ram­s­ingh, pres­i­dent of the CPLCC, said sub­scribers to the sys­tem op­er­at­ed by the Cit­i­zen Sur­veil­lance Net­work would not have to pay for cam­eras or in­stal­la­tion but a min­i­mal month­ly fee.

He spoke with Guardian Me­dia when the Cham­ber held its Health and Well­ness Day at the Cham­ber’s au­di­to­ri­um at Cam­den Road. He said the video feed would be mon­i­tored by the sur­veil­lance com­pa­ny and the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

Ja­son Val­ley, the spokesman for a GPS track­ing com­pa­ny, said more peo­ple are al­so turn­ing to hav­ing a GPS track­ing sys­tem in­stalled in their cars be­cause of the rise in au­to­mo­tive theft and car­jack­ing.

“We are hop­ing to launch this in the next three weeks. We are hop­ing that all busi­ness­es in and around the com­mu­ni­ty would buy in­to this ini­tia­tive since it will help to de­ter crim­i­nals that are giv­ing us re­al prob­lems,“ Ram­s­ingh said. 

He added that Cou­va is al­so suf­fer­ing from a se­vere short­age of wa­ter be­cause of the lack of pipe-borne sup­ply. He said some busi­ness­es are un­able to open be­cause of the wa­ter short­age. “We are ask­ing the min­is­ter to get in­volved,” Ram­s­ingh told Guardian Me­dia.