Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne says Trinidad and Tobago maintains regular communication with all its partners in the international sphere about their advisories and other relevant matters.
The response to Guardian Media followed a report that the Government of Canada issued a travel advisory informing potential visitors to this country to exercise a high degree of caution due to violent crime.
The advisory referred to crimes such as armed robberies, assaults, sexual assault, kidnapping, terrorism and home invasions.
However, Browne said, “We remain in the same advisory category as over 90 other nations, including The Bahamas, Guyana, Jamaica, the UK, Denmark, India, Spain, and Germany. There are occasional changes to some of the narratives conveyed in the various travel advisories, based on media reports and other inputs.”
He also said the Canadian authorities have clarified to him that there has been no recent change in Canada’s risk rating for Trinidad and Tobago.
Guardian Media was also informed of this by a Canadian Embassy official.
“The risk rating has not changed in several years but we do update the text for the travel advisory periodically. The recent change on March 28 was due to an update to the emergency contact information,” the official said.
The official added the rating was last updated in 2012 and again in 2020 for COVID-19.