Sev­er­al trade union lead­ers are con­demn­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro’s re­cent move to des­ig­nate 15 “no-protest zones” across Trinidad and To­ba­go, de­scrib­ing the mea­sure as a dan­ger­ous threat to democ­ra­cy and con­sti­tu­tion­al free­doms.

Un­der Le­gal No­tice No 40 of 2026, is­sued even as the State of Emer­gency (SoE) con­tin­ues, Gue­var­ro has pro­hib­it­ed pub­lic protests and demon­stra­tions with­in 500 me­tres of sev­er­al key state in­sti­tu­tions and sen­si­tive fa­cil­i­ties.

The re­strict­ed ar­eas in­clude the Par­lia­ment and Par­lia­men­tary Com­plex, the Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent, the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre, the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, the Min­istry of Fi­nance, the Min­istry of De­fence and the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty.