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Some busi­ness own­ers are rais­ing con­cerns over mount­ing costs and pro­longed de­lays, as con­tain­ers con­signed to a non-gazetted Gov­ern­ment min­istry re­main stuck at the Port of Port-of-Spain.

Port sources said con­tain­ers ad­dressed to the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty re­main strand­ed, un­able to clear Cus­toms, fol­low­ing the min­istry’s re­cent re­brand­ing as the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty, a name that had not yet been of­fi­cial­ly gazetted up to yes­ter­day.

The de­lay in pub­lish­ing the new min­istry in the Gazette, the Gov­ern­ment’s le­gal jour­nal, has ren­dered the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty ef­fec­tive­ly in­vis­i­ble in the eyes of Cus­toms sys­tems and le­gal frame­works.