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Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance, Kennedy Swarats­ingh, has iden­ti­fied se­vere un­der­staffing as the root cause of many chal­lenges faced by the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

Af­ter con­duct­ing as­sess­ments dur­ing his first two months in of­fice, Swarats­ingh said he traced mul­ti­ple op­er­a­tional prob­lems back to man­pow­er short­ages.