De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has con­firmed that this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day Pa­rade will pro­ceed as planned de­spite a se­ries of bomb threats that placed se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies across Trinidad and To­ba­go on high alert on Wednes­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) and Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice (TTFS) re­spond­ed to 11 bomb threats across the coun­try, in­clud­ing threats tar­get­ing eight mag­is­trates’ courts from San­gre Grande to Point Fortin, Val­park Plaza, the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment in Port-of-Spain, and the Ju­di­cial Com­plex in Ba­co­let, To­ba­go.

The threats were re­ceived be­tween 1 pm and 1.40 pm and trig­gered an im­me­di­ate emer­gency re­sponse from both agen­cies.