Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Busi­ness groups across Trinidad and To­ba­go are urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to jus­ti­fy any ex­ten­sion of the State of Emer­gency (SoE) with clear ev­i­dence of re­sults, stronger trans­paren­cy from law en­force­ment and firm safe­guards to pro­tect con­sti­tu­tion­al rights and civ­il lib­er­ties—while warn­ing that pro­longed emer­gency mea­sures must not be­come a sub­sti­tute for long-term crime strat­e­gy.

The call comes from the Greater Tu­na­puna Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (GT­CIC), Greater San Fer­nan­do Cham­ber of Com­merce (GS­FCC), Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC) Su­per­mar­kets As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (SATT) and the Con­fed­er­a­tion of Re­gion­al Busi­ness Cham­bers (CR­BC).