Government working hard to kick crime
THE EDITOR: You don’t just call up a toy store and say you want to get two helicopters and then go down to the store and pick them up; or place an order like you do for pizza, chicken and chips or roti and in twenty minutes a motor-cycle pulls up with your order before the children can say the first ‘mommy is it time yet!’ We have a pretty good idea of the lead time for such military assets from the National Security Minister when he told us in his budget address that an order for two fast patrol boats placed this year will be delivered in the first quarter of 2007. The Government rejected the Giulani crime plan and opted for the Mastrofski plan with a heavy component of police training long before Keith Noel was killed on May 20 2005. So it is nonsense to give the impression that the government has been and is doing nothing about getting the upper hand on crime. In addition, there have been fast patrol boats, bullet proof vests, blimp. 360 degree radar — all before Cadiz’ employee, Keith Noel, who was killed on May 20, 2005. Where was Cadiz when the murder rate escalated from 99 in 1990 to 118 in 2000 and a record 153 in 2001? PHILLIP MARCELL Tunapuna
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"Government working hard to kick crime"