‘Deal with crime, fix T&T’

Shas­tri Boodan

De­vi­ka Suk­lal: I don’t make res­o­lu­tions, I start New Year’s Day in the tem­ple. I would like to see a change in T&T. I would like to see peo­ple show more love to each oth­er, when peo­ple help each oth­er they should do it out of love. Love con­quers all.

Kevin Kowlessar

SHASTRI BOODAN

Kevin Kow­lessar, 41, busi­ness­man: For the New Year we want to plan for the busi­ness to be­come more ef­fi­cient and es­tab­lish plans for fu­ture growth. Crime is a big con­cern for every­one and it’s some­thing that we need to live with. We need to do our part as well. We need to deal with the youths and get them in­volved in sports and ar­eas of pos­i­tive youth de­vel­op­ment.

Mukesh Ramsingh

SHASTRI BOODAN

Mukesh Ram­s­ingh, 45, Pres­i­dent of the Cou­va Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce: My New Year’s res­o­lu­tions would be to fo­cus on health, fam­i­ly and busi­ness. I would like to see a change in poli­cies when it comes to crime. We need to unite to deal with this crime surge. 600 mur­ders are too much, we need to change leg­is­la­tion that would lead to con­vic­tions, and home in­va­sions are very scary. The coun­try is pick­ing up when it comes to busi­ness and crime should not act as a de­ter­rent to get­ting in­to busi­ness. We have to spend a lot of mon­ey on cam­eras, sur­veil­lance equip­ment and se­cu­ri­ty. The pro­posed in­creased rates of elec­tric­i­ty would cause hard­ships and con­tribute to in­fla­tion. The Gov­ern­ment should put poli­cies in place to get busi­ness­es and house­hold­ers on the road to re­new­able en­er­gy.

Nal Ramsingh

SHASTRI BOODAN

Nal Ram­s­ingh, 69, busi­ness­man: At my age, I am look­ing to wind down things and see my fam­i­ly go on the right track. For 2023 I would like to see peo­ple get back on their feet, the roads fixed, crime re­duced, and T&T get back on the road to pros­per­i­ty.

Donny Mohammed

SHASTRI BOODAN

Don­ny Mo­hammed, 31, road­side ven­dor: I plan to own my own busi­ness in 2023. I want to see bet­ter­ment in the coun­try in the new year. To solve the crime prob­lem there is a need to cre­ate more em­ploy­ment. Pre­ven­tion against crime is the best ad­vice.

Ryan Kissoon

SHASTRI BOODAN

Ryan Kissoon, 49: I plan to lose weight in the New Year. The au­thor­i­ties should see about the crime sit­u­a­tion in the New Year, crime has the whole na­tion liv­ing un­der a cloud of wor­ry.