Akash Sama­roo

As the Gov­ern­ment moves to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency (SoE) for a fur­ther three months, the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is warn­ing that the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion could keep Trinidad and To­ba­go un­der emer­gency pow­ers for years by ex­ploit­ing what it de­scribes as a con­sti­tu­tion­al loop­hole.

How­ev­er, the Prime Min­is­ter dis­missed the crit­i­cism, scoff­ing at the qual­i­ty of at­tor­neys with­in the PNM.