Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Af­ter cit­i­zens have been sub­ject­ed to an oner­ous State of Emer­gency for 12 of the past 14 months, democ­ra­cy in T&T is un­der threat from Gov­ern­ment’s des­ig­na­tion of 15 “no-protest” zones, in­clud­ing near the Par­lia­ment, says for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) min­is­ter Vas­ant Bharath

“His­to­ry will re­mem­ber this time for whether we stood up while we still could or wait­ed un­til there was noth­ing left to stand for. Be­cause once a pop­u­la­tion be­comes silent, pow­er be­comes fear­less. And pow­er with­out fear of the peo­ple is the most dan­ger­ous force in any coun­try,” Bharath warned in a state­ment yes­ter­day.