Re­tired com­mis­sion­er of pris­ons Ger­ard Wil­son says he sup­ports the de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency as a mea­sure to dis­rupt gang net­works in prison, but be­lieves ro­bust se­cu­ri­ty sys­tems must be im­ple­ment­ed more con­sis­tent­ly.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says in­tel­li­gence point­ing to an or­gan­ised crime syn­di­cate prepar­ing to car­ry out rob­beries, kid­nap­pings, and as­sas­si­na­tions led to the de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency at 12.02 a.m. to­day.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris says the new State of Emer­gency (SoE) de­clared this morn­ing is a “dag­ger to the heart” of To­ba­go’s al­ready strug­gling tourism sec­tor.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is now un­der a State of Emer­gency, fol­low­ing a procla­ma­tion by Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Car­la Kan­ga­loo, af­ter a for­mal rec­om­men­da­tion from Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro.

Crim­i­nol­o­gist Dr Randy Seep­er­sad says the ef­fec­tive dis­man­tling of or­gan­ised crime net­works be­hind prison walls should take pri­or­i­ty over the in­tro­duc­tion of a na­tion­wide State of Emer­gency (SoE).

For­mer Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has crit­i­cised the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) for is­su­ing a me­dia re­lease in­di­cat­ing that it would rec­om­mend an­oth­er State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Trinidad and To­ba­go is now un­der a State of Emer­gency, fol­low­ing a procla­ma­tion by Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Car­la Kan­ga­loo in re­sponse to a "wide­spread and co­or­di­nat­ed na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty threat."

The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go has de­clared a State of Emer­gency fol­low­ing con­fir­ma­tion of a co­or­di­nat­ed and dan­ger­ous crim­i­nal net­work op­er­at­ing from with­in the na­tion’s prison sys­tem.

The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go has de­clared a State of Emer­gency fol­low­ing con­fir­ma­tion of a co­or­di­nat­ed and dan­ger­ous crim­i­nal net­work op­er­at­ing from with­in the na­tion’s prison sys­tem.

In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Re­source Net­work (IWRN) pres­i­dent Adri­ana San­drine Rat­tan-Isaac has is­sued an ap­peal to the State for ac­tion, fol­low­ing what she de­scribed as an un­prece­dent­ed spate of bru­tal mur­ders tar­get­ing women in T&T.

Work on the re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ Debe cam­pus be­gins to­day and the cam­pus is ex­pect­ed to fo­cus on law “among oth­er things,” ac­cord­ing to Min­is­ter of Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing Prakash Per­sad.

In the wake of the mur­der of Can­dice Hon­ore, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der is urg­ing women to be care­ful when us­ing so­cial me­dia as part of their per­son­al lives to keep them­selves safe.