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.