(Trinidad Guardian) The Colombian and Mexican Governments are both assisting Trinidad and Tobago in the fight against crime. The Colombians are assisting with gang-dismantling training while the Mexicans are offering polygraph training for local security forces said Foreign Affairs and Communications Minister Suruj Rambachan yesterday.
He spoke during yesterday’s House of Representatives debate on an Opposition motion complaining about the lack of effective security systems. Rambachan attacked the former PNM administration on its security performance and outlined the PP government’s progress in this regard. He said Colombia was also helping with security training of air, sea and military forces and with anti-kidnapping techniques.
He said the Prime Minister at Thursday’s PP rally wasn’t afraid to say she wasn’t satisfied with the way the war on crime is being fought. Rambachan said the rally was a perfect example of public accountablity, and the PP was asking to be judged on performance period by period, and not only at the end of five years.
He said the Government had introduced performance appraisals and the PM had made it clear she would call in ministers to assess their performance and if she was satisfied or not she would make changes. He read from a booklet the PP distributed at the rally on its achievements to date.
Rambachan said apart from crime, the PP had inherited an angry, bitter society whose mood had to be changed, and it was taking pre-emptive measures to deal with the root of crime. While he said he wasn’t advocating censorship, he expressed concern at computer games with the messages, “Kill, destroy” and other similar themes and how these affect youths.
