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Akash Samaroo
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is defending her Government’s move to seek a three-month extension of the State of Emergency (SoE), insisting the measure is temporary but necessary to protect citizens from violent crime after what she described as decades of bloodshed and insecurity.
Speaking ahead of today’s parliamentary debate, where Government is seeking what is essentially the second extension to its second SoE since coming into office, Persad-Bissessar argued that the country could not afford a return to the levels of violence experienced over the past quarter-century.
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