THE EDITOR: For months we have seen a gradual and systematic breakdown in law and order with regard to the theft of copper cables and other related items.
Nationwide the very ugly sight of cut and hanging TSTT cables, the destruction of WASA and T&TEC assets by thieves in order to access copper, speaks to an inertia by the Government, which makes citizens wonder.
A proactive government would have devised strategies from early to mitigate this level of banditry.
Why has the Government flat out refused to ban the exportation of copper items from Trinidad and Tobago? Why has the Government refused to put systems in place to determine the origins of copper that is being exported?
The only way to solve this problem is to make it unfeasible and expensive for the thieves.
But that and a blue bachac we may never see.
LINUS F DIDIER
Mt Hope
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