Ramdial calls on Dillon to shape up

In a strongly worded media statement yesterday, Ramdial also called on National Security Minister Edmund Dillon, to “shape up and start working in the best interests of the people of our country or ship out.” “Last night there was a triple shooting in Enterprise, Central Trinidad, where one person died,” Ramdial said adding that shootings and killings have become the norm in Enterprise and Central Trinidad.

“Central Division Police are doing all they can within their remit to fight the crime surge but need additional support from the army and Coast Guard,” Ramdial stated, and pointed out that there were currently no 24-hour rotation joint police and army patrols in Enterprise.

“Am I to assume as a Central MP that the Minister and his Government do not care about eradicating gang warfare born out of the drug trade in Central? Why are there joint police/army patrols which are working to stamp out gang warfare in other hotspot areas like Laventille but we cannot have this same strategy deployed to Central,” she asked.

Ramdial, who observed that with the Ministry of National Security having received the largest chunk of the budget with an allocation of $7.6 billion, also called for the establishment of an army base as well as the expansion of the Police Youth Clubs in Trinidad and Tobago