00:00The Prime Minister says that the over $1.5 billion of drugs burned by the police amounts to approximately 1
00:06% of our annual GDP.
00:08The Prime Minister made the declaration as she thanks the brave men and women of the Protective Services.
00:15Jewel Brown reports.
00:16Prime Minister Kamala Passat-Basasa says the over $1.6 billion in illegal drugs destroyed by the Trinidad and Tobago
00:24Police Service
00:25amongst approximately 1% of the nation's annual GDP or gross domestic product.
00:32In a statement on social media, Prime Minister Passat-Basasa, who chairs the National Security Council,
00:38in an expression of gratitude, said thanks to the efforts of those she identified as our brave men and women
00:45of our Protective Services
00:46who prevented these drugs from making it onto our streets to poison our children and destroy families.
00:52The over $1.6 billion in illicit drugs were burned on Tuesday at the cremation site in Karani,
01:00witnessed by Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander and Police Commissioner Alastair Guevaro.
01:05Prime Minister Passat-Basasa said, quote,
01:07The UNC government and the Protective Services will continue our fight against the local drug mafia
01:13who were allowed to run rampant for 10 years under the PNM, end quote.
01:17The Prime Minister continued, quote,
01:20The local drug mafia that got so much under the PNM's time in office is over.
01:24Not only are we going after their physical shipments of drugs,
01:28we are also displacing their accomplices in our financial institutions,
01:32distribution networks and public sector with the help of international law enforcement, end quote.
01:39Jewel Brown, TV6 News.
01:41Jewel Brown, TV6 News.
01:41Jewel Brown, TV6 News.
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