Akash Sama­roo

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to end the State of Emer­gency, ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of sup­press­ing de­mo­c­ra­t­ic ex­pres­sion while dis­miss­ing pub­lic out­rage over the killing of Joshua Sama­roo in a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in Jan­u­ary.

In a state­ment on Wednes­day night, Beck­les said Trinidad and To­ba­go was drift­ing dan­ger­ous­ly close to be­com­ing “a polic­ing state,” af­ter po­lice ar­rest­ed two demon­stra­tors in­volved in the “19 Bul­lets, 19 Protests” cam­paign out­side the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) ear­li­er that day.