DPDareece Polo

1. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Dareece Polo

   New police posts in 3 communities bring assurance (opens the original)

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   Nine days af­ter three po­lice posts were es­tab­lished across Trinidad, res­i­dents and work­ers in the sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties say the in­creased po­lice pres­ence is pro­vid­ing some re­as­sur­ance, al­though ques­tions re­main about whether they will lead to a re­duc­tion in crime. Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed two of the three lo­ca­tions, the Ed­die Hart Recre­ation Ground in Tacarigua and Grand Bazaar in Val­sayn, to as­sess the sit­u­a­tion on the ground. At Ed­die Hart, armed of­fi­cer

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2. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Dareece Polo

   Senators raise alarm over political use of special operations (opens the original)

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   Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tors Faris Al-Rawi and Dr Mar­garet Rose have raised con­cerns about the Prime Min­is­ter’s sug­ges­tion that spe­cial op­er­a­tions could be con­cen­trat­ed in ar­eas con­trolled by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), warn­ing that the pow­ers un­der the pro­posed leg­is­la­tion must not be ap­plied ac­cord­ing to po­lit­i­cal af­fil­i­a­tion. Speak­ing with re­porters out­side Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day, Al-Rawi de­fend­ed the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) crit­i­c

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3. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Dareece Polo

   Criminologist welcomes stronger judicial oversight in new bill (opens the original)

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   Crim­i­nol­o­gist Dr Randy Seep­er­sad has wel­comed the stronger ju­di­cial over­sight pro­posed un­der the new Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill but cau­tions that the leg­is­la­tion risks be­com­ing lit­tle more than a crime-sup­pres­sion mea­sure if it fails to ad­dress the so­cial con­di­tions that con­tribute to crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty. Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia by phone, Seep­er­sad said the lat­est ver­sion of the leg­is­la­tion in­cludes stronger checks and bal­ances, par­tic­u­lar­ly thr

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4. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Dareece Polo

   CoP reveals current body cams only have two hours of battery life (opens the original)

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   As Par­lia­ment pre­pares to de­bate the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill to­day, a dis­pute over the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) body-worn cam­era ca­pac­i­ty has raised fresh ques­tions about the safe­guards that would ac­com­pa­ny the ex­pand­ed po­lice pow­ers pro­posed un­der the leg­is­la­tion. Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro said yes­ter­day that just over 100 body cam­eras were cur­rent­ly op­er­a­tional with­in the TTPS. How­ev­er, for­mer po­lice com­mis­si

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5. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Dareece Polo

   Economists urge PSA to accept final wage offer (opens the original)

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   Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) mem­bers are be­ing urged to ac­cept the Gov­ern­ment’s fi­nal wage of­fer, as econ­o­mists weigh the coun­try’s se­vere fi­nan­cial con­straints against the de­clin­ing val­ue of mon­ey owed to work­ers af­ter eight years of ne­go­ti­a­tions. Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer Dr Daryl Din­di­al has main­tained the Gov­ern­ment’s of­fer of 40 per cent in cash and 60 per cent in non-cash ben­e­fits for out­stand­ing wage ne­go­ti­a­tions cov­er­ing 2014 to 2019.

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