A Cab­i­net note which cir­cu­lat­ed on Mon­day night sparked spec­u­la­tion that this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day mil­i­tary pa­rade had been can­celled, but Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and the Min­istry of De­fence have both con­firmed the event will pro­ceed.

The note, dat­ed June 11 and ti­tled Pro­pos­al for Host­ing of the Cer­e­mo­ni­al Mil­i­tary Pa­rade and Route March to Com­mem­o­rate the 64th An­niver­sary of the In­de­pen­dence of Trinidad and To­ba­go, stat­ed that Cab­i­net had grant­ed De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge leave to with­draw the note. It was signed by Cab­i­net Sec­re­tary C Hem­lee.

The ref­er­ence to the note be­ing “with­drawn” led some to con­clude the pa­rade had been scrapped, par­tic­u­lar­ly giv­en sim­i­lar­i­ties to last year when the coun­try was un­der a State of Emer­gency and Cab­i­net min­is­ters had re­port­ed re­ceiv­ing death threats.