Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Pen­ny Beck­les says there is no crime plan by the Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar Gov­ern­ment.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie said Gov­ern­ment had “no choice” but to ad­vise the Pres­i­dent to de­clare a state of emer­gency, cit­ing an es­ca­la­tion in gang vi­o­lence, mass shoot­ings and cred­i­ble threats to pub­lic safe­ty.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo says she is sat­is­fied that a pub­lic emer­gency has arisen that would en­dan­ger the pub­lic's safe­ty and has is­sued the req­ui­site le­gal no­tice for an­oth­er State of Emer­gency.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is again un­der a State of Emer­gency, with the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026, Le­gal No­tice No. 40 of 2026, now in force.

A busi­ness­man said to be in his late 60s was shot dead out­side his home in San­ta Rosa Heights, Ari­ma on Mon­day evening.

Po­lice from mul­ti­ple units were de­ployed to San­gre Grande on Mon­day night to strength­en se­cu­ri­ty af­ter a pow­er out­age af­fect­ed sec­tions of the town­ship.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar an­nounced that Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has de­clared a State of Pub­lic Emer­gency with ef­fect from Tues­day, March 3rd, 2026, fol­low­ing ur­gent ad­vice from the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil.

Sleep­less nights un­der the thun­der of in­ter­cept­ed mis­siles have be­come rou­tine for some Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als liv­ing in the Mid­dle East, as the con­flict in­volv­ing the Unit­ed States, Is­rael and Iran in­ten­si­fies with dead­ly con­se­quences.

While Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar faces crit­i­cism over her sup­port of the Unit­ed States and Is­rael’s ma­jor at­tack on Iran, one Mus­lim leader be­lieves the Prime Min­is­ter may be act­ing in what she con­sid­ers the best in­ter­est of Trinidad and To­ba­go, but notes that her hands may al­so be tied.

For­mer ac­tu­ing com­mis­sion­er of po­lice Mc­Don­ald Ja­cob says it was the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, through its Transna­tion­al Or­gan­ised Crime Unit (TOCU), which grant­ed ap­proval for four mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to trav­el to Bar­ba­dos to bring firearms deal­er Brent Thomas to T&T on Oc­to­ber 5, 2022.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge says his col­league, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der, made an er­ror when he said there were no miss­ing files on firearms deal­er Brent Thomas at his min­istry.

To­ba­go stu­dent Ray­lon Tay­lor re­mains strand­ed in Abu Dhabi as mil­i­tary con­flict in the Mid­dle East has ground­ed thou­sands of flights.