Chester Sam­bra­no

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the reg­u­la­tions gov­ern­ing the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE) dif­fer from those im­ple­ment­ed dur­ing the 2024 State of Emer­gency un­der the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly in how they ad­dress free­dom of ex­pres­sion and pub­lic safe­ty.

In a mes­sage yes­ter­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­ferred to pro­vi­sions in the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions used dur­ing the 2024 State of Emer­gency, specif­i­cal­ly Reg­u­la­tion 12, which said no per­son shall en­deav­our, whether oral­ly or oth­er­wise, to in­flu­ence pub­lic opin­ion in a man­ner like­ly to be prej­u­di­cial to pub­lic safe­ty and or­der, or do any act or pos­sess any ar­ti­cle with a view to mak­ing or fa­cil­i­tat­ing such an en­deav­our.