The Unit­ed States Em­bassy in Trinidad and To­ba­go has main­tained a Lev­el III trav­el ad­vi­so­ry for Trinidad and To­ba­go, ad­vis­ing trav­ellers to re­con­sid­er trav­el due to crime and a height­ened risk of ter­ror­ism.

The up­dat­ed ad­vi­so­ry comes days af­ter the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go of­fi­cial­ly des­ig­nat­ed three or­gan­i­sa­tions—Hezbol­lah, Hamas and Iran’s Is­lam­ic Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Guard Corps—as ter­ror­ist en­ti­ties, trig­ger­ing a ma­jor le­gal and fi­nan­cial re­sponse un­der Trinidad and To­ba­go’s An­ti-Ter­ror­ism Act.

The ad­vi­so­ry, is­sued on Mon­day, states there was no change to the ad­vi­so­ry lev­el.

It notes that the “kid­nap­ping” in­di­ca­tor was re­moved, an area of in­creased risk was added, and the ad­vi­so­ry sum­ma­ry was up­dat­ed.

It says, “Re­con­sid­er trav­el to Trinidad and To­ba­go due to crime. There is al­so a height­ened risk of ter­ror­ism. Some ar­eas have an in­creased risk.”

The ad­vi­so­ry al­so states: “Ex­er­cise in­creased cau­tion in rur­al ar­eas due to health risks.”

It comes as the Gov­ern­ment de­clared a na­tion­wide State of Emer­gency (SoE) on March 2, fol­low­ing a spike in vi­o­lent crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty.

The ad­vi­so­ry states the State of Emer­gency is due to “a spike in vi­o­lent crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty that could threat­en pub­lic safe­ty.”

It out­lines mea­sures in place, in­clud­ing that the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice can ar­rest peo­ple on sus­pi­cion of in­volve­ment in il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties and search and en­ter pub­lic and pri­vate prop­er­ties as need­ed. It al­so states that bail is sus­pend­ed for those sus­pect­ed of com­mit­ting a crime, and that mem­bers of the De­fence Force are fol­low­ing sim­i­lar reg­u­la­tions as the lo­cal po­lice.

The ad­vi­so­ry fur­ther states there are cur­rent­ly no cur­fews or re­stric­tions on pub­lic gath­er­ings, and that re­stric­tions may change with lit­tle or no no­tice.

In its sum­ma­ry, the ad­vi­so­ry said, “Al­though vi­o­lent crime in Trinidad and To­ba­go has dropped great­ly since 2024 due to se­cu­ri­ty ef­forts start­ed dur­ing the pre­vi­ous state of emer­gen­cies, crime re­mains a chal­lenge through­out the coun­try. Crime rates are low­er in To­ba­go than in Trinidad.”

It added, “There is risk of ter­ror­ist vi­o­lence, in­clud­ing ter­ror­ist at­tacks and oth­er ac­tiv­i­ty in Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

Ac­cord­ing to the ad­vi­so­ry, US gov­ern­ment em­ploy­ees are re­strict­ed from trav­el­ling to sev­er­al ar­eas in Port-of-Spain at cer­tain times, in­clud­ing Laven­tille, Pic­cadil­ly Street, Besson Street, Beetham, Sea Lots, Co­corite, and parts of Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, with ad­di­tion­al night-time re­stric­tions in down­town Port-of-Spain, Fort George and near­by ar­eas.