Hous­ing Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says the re­moval of the cur­few will be mon­i­tored on a day-to-day ba­sis and can be rein­tro­duced "at a mo­ment's no­tice" if it is deemed nec­es­sary.Mooni­lal made the an­nounce­ment dur­ing yes­ter­day's Sec­ond Re­gion­al Clean De­vel­op­ment Mech­a­nism Work­shop at the Crowne Plaza, Port-of-Spain.Speak­ing to re­porters af­ter he de­liv­ered the fea­ture ad­dress at the event, Mooni­lal said:"We will mon­i­tor the progress on a day-to-day ba­sis and even the cur­few is sub­ject to re­view and in the event it is nec­es­sary again it can be rein­tro­duced at a mo­ment's no­tice."

He said the Gov­ern­ment would con­tin­ue to as­sess the sit­u­a­tion and was putting plans in place for the post-state of emer­gency, which in­volved not on­ly polic­ing but al­so a so­cial and eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment pro­gramme.Mooni­lal said cit­i­zens should con­tin­ue to be vig­i­lant and cau­tious."Don't use this op­por­tu­ni­ty for cit­i­zens gone wild," he cau­tioned."Be ex­treme­ly guard­ed in our con­duct and in our ap­proach be­cause the coun­try is still un­der an emer­gency."

He said the Gov­ern­ment did not cave in to pres­sure from the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty, spe­cial in­ter­est groups or trade unions to re­move the cur­few.Mooni­lal said once it was clear a sec­tor like the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty had made a sug­ges­tion or rec­om­men­da­tion that the cur­few be lift­ed it had to be bal­anced with se­cu­ri­ty im­per­a­tives and re­quire­ments.He said se­ri­ous crime had de­creased by 70 per cent and T&T had ex­pe­ri­enced the low­est mur­der rate on a per-month ba­sis for 20 years."We'd like that to con­tin­ue," Mooni­lal added.He said: "Cit­i­zens must be cau­tious and take pre­cau­tions and just don't use this as a pe­ri­od to get wild."