One of Trinidad and Tobago’s leading daily newspapers has painted a disturbing picture of a likely increase in what is already an alarming rate of what it says are “acts of criminality” that target the business community in the twin-island Republic. The Trinidad Guardian of Thursday, January 11, reports that “experts in the area of criminality” are of the view that acts of criminality which the country’s business community faced in 2023 are likely to worsen this year before it gets better.” “Last year was a year in which members of the business community were the victims of armed burglaries, kidnappings and even murder,” the Guardian article stated, citing instances of the targeting of businesses, the gunning down of a businesswomen “in her Range Rover vehicle in her driveway in San Fernando” and the shooting to death of a businessman “outside his pharmacy in Aranguez” in April last year.
