Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) lec­tur­er and vlog­ger Rho­da Bharath says she is go­ing to be “savvy” in her so­cial me­dia posts as the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tion al­lows for those pre­sum­ably caus­ing pub­lic dis­cord to be de­tained.

Ac­cord­ing to Sec­tion 11 of the reg­u­la­tions: “No per­son shall– (a) En­deav­our, whether oral­ly or oth­er­wise, to in­flu­ence pub­lic opin­ion in a man­ner like­ly to be prej­u­di­cial to pub­lic safe­ty; or (b) Do any act or have any ar­ti­cle in his pos­ses­sion with a view to mak­ing or fa­cil­i­tat­ing the mak­ing of any such en­deav­our.”

Bharath said she has been prepar­ing for some form of at­tempt by the gov­ern­ment to sti­fle not on­ly op­pos­ing views but stymie the leak­ing of in­for­ma­tion.