The Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion of Port of Spain has is­sued an ur­gent ad­vi­so­ry to busi­ness­es fol­low­ing a se­ries of night­time shopfront bur­glar­ies across the city.

In a state­ment, the as­so­ci­a­tion said the at­tacks have been oc­cur­ring on a reg­u­lar ba­sis and con­tin­ue de­spite an alert cir­cu­lat­ed to the down­town busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty on Tues­day, De­cem­ber 30. It said some op­er­a­tors have not tak­en the rec­om­mend­ed pre­cau­tions and sev­er­al premis­es have been tar­get­ed more than once.

The as­so­ci­a­tion re­port­ed an­oth­er shopfront bur­glary at about 3.00 am on Jan­u­ary 7, 2025, at #27 Fred­er­ick Street, and said the in­ci­dent un­der­scored the need to height­en aware­ness of the night­time threat fac­ing Port of Spain.