Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

As Mus­lims in T&T be­gin wel­com­ing the holy month of Ra­madan, fam­i­lies of de­tained cit­i­zens in Syr­i­an refugee camps are call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to up­hold promis­es she made be­fore last year’s Gen­er­al Elec­tions to bring their rel­a­tives home - es­pe­cial­ly fol­low­ing a re­cent Hu­man Rights Watch (HRW) re­port stat­ing that those in the camps are in dan­ger.

This fol­lowed an HRW ar­ti­cle last Thurs­day call­ing for Per­sad-Bisses­sar to act on the mat­ter. The ar­ti­cle was head­lined “Trinida­di­an na­tion­als face es­ca­la­tion of abuse in Syr­i­an camps - con­di­tions wors­en as TT Gov­ern­ment de­lays repa­tri­a­tions.”