Newsletter
Consolidated Systems and Supplies
April 15, 2013
Volume 1, Issue 1
Welcome to the first edition of our Newsletter!
Our goal is to remain connected with our clients and partners by sharing
valuable information about our company as well as the safety and
security industry in which we operate.
New Headquarters Office Location
To facilitate our growing
staff and company’s
demands, we have
relocated our office to the
Belleville Corporate
Centre in Belleville.
Our new address is:
Our telephone and fax
numbers remain the
same:
Belleville Corporate
Centre
38 Pine Road
Belleville, St. Michael
Barbados BB 11114
Tel: 246-431-2774
Inside this issue:
New Location
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New Hires
2
New Projects
3
About us
4
Upcoming
Events
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Fax: 246-431-2775
CSS is your
leading partner
in security
integration:
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Electronic
physical security

Building
management

Architectural
hardware

Fire solutions
New Hires
Patricia Deane, Group Business Development Manager
strategy by ensuring all
business units are aligned
with the strategic direction of
the company and operate
within the company’s core
values. Patricia computes
and analyzes the company’s
KPIs and business metrics to
drive business performance.
As Group Business
Development Manager,
Patricia is instrumental in
executing the business’
strategic growth plans in the
5 islands CSS currently
operates (Barbados,
Trinidad, St. Lucia, St Kitts
and, St. Vincent). She
champions CSS business
Prior to joining CSS, Patricia
lived and worked in the USA
for 20 years. She held
positions such as Project
Manager, Funding Manager,
and Industry Relations
Manager over several
industries for companies
including JPMorgan Chase
and MedImpact.
Patricia obtained her
Bachelor’s degree in
Marketing from St. John’s
University in New York, and
her Master of Science in
Global Business Leadership,
with a Certification in Project
Management, from the
University of San Diego,
California. Her expertise lies
in Marketing, Project
Management, Operations,
and Process Re-engineering.
Patricia’s professional
growth in Corporate
America, equips her to
enforce our company’s
strategy of being efficient
while delivering high quality
service to our clients.
Jamaala Fagon, Operations Manager, Barbados
“To be a world-class
company, we must
have world-class
talent.”
-Tansal Akcayli, CEO
As Operations Manager,
Jamaala leads the Barbados
business unit in the
achievement and
maintenance of high
standards of customer
satisfaction. She promotes a
culture of quality and
excellence through the
technical expertise of the
Barbados operations team.
Jamaala’s focus is on
fostering longstanding,
mutually beneficial
relationships with our clients
by exceeding their
expectations.
services. Her repertoire of
business skills includes
problem solving, negotiating
and securing contracts, client
relations, marketing, and
managing projects.
Jamaala brings substantial
experience in the security
industry to CSS. She held the
position of General Manager
for a security group in
Jamaica where she spent ten
years with the group and
was instrumental in
delivering improvements of
their products and services.
Jamaala has also acted as a
consultant to a number of
clients offering her expertise
in electronic, manpower,
armed response and courier
A true Caribbean native,
Jamaala was born in Guyana,
spent her formative years in
Barbados, and received her
tertiary education in Jamaica,
where she obtained a
Bachelor’s degree in Business
Administration (Honours),
Marketing.
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Some New Projects
City Surveillance – St. Lucia
Like most Caribbean islands, St.
Lucia’s economy relies heavily on
tourism. To protect their tourism
industry as well as to reduce crime
on the island, the Ministry of Home
Affairs and National Security
embarked on an initiative to
provide a more secure environment
by protecting its residents and its
tourism industry.
completed, and phase 3 in progress.
CSS’ proposal for cameras for
strategic areas was accepted. The
project is segmented into three
phases with phase 1 and 2
The surveillance system is based on
the state of the art IP CCTV where
90 IP PTZ’s and many Megapixel IP
fixed cameras have been deployed
in the first two phases. The entire
system can be monitored from the
command centre which CSS
established at the Royal St. Lucia
Police Headquarters
Cost –U-Less – Barbados
Cost u Less - Barbado
Barbados welcomed another
warehouse club-style store when
Cost-U-Less opened its operation
last month in Welches, Barbados.
Cost-U-Less is a division of
The North West Company which
operates 13 mid-sized warehouse
club-style stores in the United
States Territories, Hawaiian
Islands, South Pacific, Caribbean
and Sonora, California.
According to Occupational Safety
and Health Administration
(OSHA) and The National Safety
Council in the US, slip and falls
are the number one cause of
accidents in Hotels, Restaurants
and Public Buildings.
To mitigate such claims, Cost-ULess requires reliable cameras at all
of their locations. CSS’ solution
was to install 36 two Mega pixel
Illustra 610 Cameras, and 12
Discover 500 analog Cameras.
Furthermore, to mitigate loses
associated with theft, 4 UltraPost 6
Primary Pedestals, and 2 Ultrapost
6 Secondary Pedestals were
installed. This is all being
supported by a DSC alarm system,
Dell Monitors and 10 TB NVRs.
Ritz Carlton - Aruba
The Ritz-Carlton, which operates
81 luxury hotels and resorts in
major cities worldwide, will be
opening The Ritz-Carlton® Aruba
Resort on the famous Palm Beach
in Aruba in late 2013.
As the third resort construction
project for the Marriott brands of
hotels being built by the successful
Latin American hotel developer
Desarrollos Hotelco., this 6 story
luxury hotel will feature 330 beach
front rooms, and will be the first 5
star hotel in Aruba.
tasked with creating the hardware
schedule for all of the 1000
architectural openings for this
project. CSS specified and
scheduled ANSI standards door
hardware according to American
NFPA life safety standards,
compliant with the safety needs of
a multistory hospitality project.
CSS then supplied over 1000 doors
As part of the Desarollos project
team from late 2011, CSS was
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and hardware including guest room
main entry doors, connecting doors,
bathroom doors, common area
doors, and back of house doors,
both wood and steel, fire rated and
non-fire rated. CSS was also
awarded the bathroom partitions
package, to design and supply the
toilet partitions for all public
restrooms throughout the project.
BARBADOS
Belleville Corporate Centre
38 Pine Road
Belleville, St. Michael
Barbados , 11114
Tel : + 1 246 431 2774
Fax: + 1 246 431 2775
bb@css-caribbean.com
TRINIDAD
135 Yizhak-Ben-Zvi Avenue
Petit Valley, Trinidad
Tel : + 1 868 490 5881
Fax: + 1 868 625 6547
tt@css-caribbean.com
ST. LUCIA
Providence Commercial Centre,
Rodney Bay
PO Box 940
Castries, St. Lucia
Tel (758) 572 5170
slu@css-caribbean.com
ST. KITTS
Suite 9
TDC Downtown Plaza
Fort Street
Basseterre, St. Kitts
Tel (869) 466-3667
stk@css-caribbean.com
ST. VINCENT
Beachcombers
PO Box 126
Villa, St. Vincent
Tel (784) 458-4283
Fax (784) 458-4385
svg@css-caribbean.com
About us
For over ten (10) years, CSS has been a leading provider in the Caribbean region of integrated
solutions for, CCTV Surveillance, Access Control, Fire Alarm, Fire Protection, Building
Automation and Architectural door and door hardware.
CSS, with its head office in Bridgetown, Barbados, has offices in five islands (Barbados,
Trinidad, St. Vincent, St. Lucia and St. Kitts) serving the Caribbean region and its environs.
We have a successful client base spread across twelve (12) countries including Cuba and the
Dominican Republic, then coming through the island chain starting with Jamaica in the north
down to Trinidad in the south.
CSS is partnered with two global industry leaders – Tyco (for Electronic Physical Security,
and Fire and life safety solutions) and ASSA ABLOY – the global leader in “door opening
solutions” (Architectural Hardware).
Our customers range from the very secure and technologically advanced Dodds Prison in
Barbados (where we installed and continue to provide ongoing support for the entire CCTV
and access control security systems) to the luxurious Mustique Island, where we deployed
the CCTV and surveillance systems that guard the entire island. We have installed many
successful electronic security and life safety systems in various market segments including
government, retail, education, public and private industries. Our customers are some of the
largest and most successful in their respective areas.
Upcoming Events
CSS will join its sister
company, Tansa Security, as
an exhibitor at IFSEC
International to be held at the
NEC Birmingham, England
from May 13 – 16, 2013.
important projects such as the
2007 Cricket World Cup, the
Mercedes Factory in Mexico,
Copa Airlines in Panama and
the Central Bank of the
Dominican Republic.
Tansa is the manufacturer of
security gates and turnstiles.
CSS represents Tansa in the
Americas region and has
supplied and installed several
IFSEC International is the
largest event for the security
industry, bringing together
the entire security buying
chain in one place.
info@css-caribbean.com
www.css-caribbean.com
Integrating Security and
Technology. Seamlessly.
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CSS will also be an exhibitor
at the ASIS International 59th
Annual Seminar and Exhibits
to be held in Chicago, Illinois
from September 24-27, 2013.
ASIS 2013 is a very influential
security event that delivers
forward-thinking security
solutions and up-to-date
intelligence security. This
seminar attracts more than
20,000 security professionals
to whom CSS and Tansa will
be exhibiting.