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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Guevarro gets first-hand look at illegal quarrying

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Anna-Lisa Paul
22 days ago
20250704
One of the Illegal quarries visited by Police Commissioner Allister Guevarro.

One of the Illegal quarries visited by Police Commissioner Allister Guevarro.

COURTESY:TTPS

In keep­ing with his promise to ad­dress il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro paid a sur­prise vis­it to spe­cif­ic ar­eas in east Trinidad on Wednes­day, as he sought to get a first-hand look at un­sanc­tioned quar­ry­ing and min­ing.

His vis­it to ar­eas in the San­gre Grande dis­trict, in­clud­ing Va­len­cia and Manuel Con­go, fol­lowed re­ports about unau­tho­rised op­er­a­tions that had raised sig­nif­i­cant en­vi­ron­men­tal and in­fra­struc­tur­al con­cerns.

Dis­rup­tions to op­er­a­tions at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) wa­ter treat­ment plant in the area were al­so raised.

Re­spond­ing im­me­di­ate­ly af­ter it was brought to his at­ten­tion, Gue­var­ro led of­fi­cers in a tar­get­ed op­er­a­tion on Wednes­day. He sur­veyed the af­fect­ed ar­eas to as­sess the sit­u­a­tion on the ground.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers car­ried out sev­er­al ac­tiv­i­ties to col­lect in­for­ma­tion as they list­ed ob­ser­va­tions and made notes – all aimed at de­ter­min­ing the scale and im­pact of the il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) as­sured, “At present, in­ves­ti­ga­tions are ac­tive­ly un­der­way to as­cer­tain the ex­tent of any crim­i­nal con­duct as­so­ci­at­ed with these lo­ca­tions.”

—An­na-Lisa Paul


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