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The pres­i­dent of the In­ter-Re­li­gious Or­ga­ni­za­tion (IRO), Dr El­lis Bur­ris, has ex­pressed full sup­port for the Gov­ern­ment’s re­cent mea­sures to tack­le crime, in­clud­ing the de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency.

Re­spond­ing to ques­tions from Guardian Me­dia this week, Bur­ris em­pha­sised the ur­gent need for ac­tion to curb ris­ing crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty and re­store a sense of se­cu­ri­ty among cit­i­zens.

The IRO head not­ed that this is not the first time such a mea­sure has been im­ple­ment­ed in Trinidad and To­ba­go.