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 yes­ter­day, the as­so­ci­a­tion said the at­tacks have been oc­cur­ring on a reg­u­lar ba­sis and con­tin­ue de­spite an alert cir­cu­lat­ed to the down­town busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty on De­cem­ber 30.

It said some op­er­a­tors have not tak­en the rec­om­mend­ed pre­cau­tions, and sev­er­al premis­es have been tar­get­ed more than once.