Forensic lab equipment contract signed

President of Western Scientific Company Edwin Mackoon (second from right) signs the contract. (GINA photo)

A US$1.688M ($346M) contract was signed on Friday by the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Trinidad- based Western Scientific Company for the supply of  equipment for the state-of-the-art Police Forensic Laboratory,  a release from the Government Information Agency (GINA) said.

This project falls under the Citizen Security Pro-gramme (CSP) that was initiated between Government and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). This programme has three components; institutional modernisation