Business leaders demand results

LEADERS of Trinidad and Tobago’s business community yesterday demanded results from Government’s new anti-crime initiative and were guardedly optimistic that those results would be achieved.

Speaking with reporters following a marathon meeting at the Hilton Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers Association (TTMA) President Anthony Hosang declared: “We feel that it is important that whatever initiatives the Government has to put in place that they do it as quickly as possible. We’ve communicated this to the Prime Minister. We have communicated that the responsibility of crime, the removal and correction of crime in this country is the responsibility of the Government. “The Prime Minister” is very aware of that and we expect results. We have heard the talk. The Minister of National Security said it today in his presentation. The people of Trinidad and Tobago are tired of hearing talk. We expect results. We are very hopeful that we will see the desired results in as short a time as possible.”

Hosang said the business community would “stand up to the plate” if Government requires additional funding for its anti-crime efforts. “Whatever we are requested to do as citizens of TT, we will do whatever we can to support that.” He reiterated: “We are not crimefighters. There are pros to do that and they have to do their job.The only thing the business community and any citizen of this country should be satisfied with is results.” The TTMA president revealed that over the businessmen’s last two days of talks with Prime Minister Patrick Manning, “we did not go with submissions.” “We went to express to the Prime Minister the position as we saw it.”