Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Trinidad and To­ba­go will be un­der a State of Emer­gency (SoE) un­til Sep­tem­ber, af­ter Gov­ern­ment an­nounced yes­ter­day that it will go to Par­lia­ment on Wednes­day to ex­tend the cur­rent SoE for an­oth­er three months.

The At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s of­fice made the an­nounce­ment yes­ter­day evening, af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar met with the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (NSC) last Fri­day and re­viewed a num­ber of re­ports which high­light­ed analy­ses of “datasets” re­lat­ed to sig­nif­i­cant lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al threats to State se­cu­ri­ty.