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The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has as­sured the pub­lic that the is­land re­mains safe amid the na­tion­al state of emer­gency (SoE) de­clared by the Gov­ern­ment yes­ter­day.

In a me­dia re­lease, the THA not­ed the rea­sons giv­en by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for call­ing the SoE, but said To­ba­go has been ex­pe­ri­enc­ing low lev­els of se­ri­ous and or­gan­ised crime. It added that ac­cord­ing to lo­cal law en­force­ment and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty part­ners, there is no ev­i­dence of the es­ca­la­tion of any gang ac­tiv­i­ty or co­or­di­nat­ed crime on the is­land.

“The THA re­mains in ac­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice and rel­e­vant na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies to en­sure the im­ple­men­ta­tion of any mea­sures with­in To­ba­go re­mains pro­por­tion­ate, in­tel­li­gence-led, and re­spon­sive to the is­land’s spe­cif­ic se­cu­ri­ty con­text. Our pri­or­i­ty is to pre­serve pub­lic safe­ty while min­imis­ing un­nec­es­sary dis­rup­tion to law­ful eco­nom­ic and so­cial ac­tiv­i­ty.”