Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tists were re­fused per­mis­sion to stage a planned march in San Fer­nan­do un­der the State of Emer­gency, but will pro­ceed with a week of prayer from Sun­day.

King Shep­herd Ray Brath­waite, head of the Na­tion­al Con­gress of In­cor­po­rat­ed Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tist Or­ga­ni­za­tions of Trinidad and To­ba­go, said the group in­tend­ed to host prayers and a pro­ces­sion from the Bap­tist Mon­u­ment on Carib Street but could not se­cure po­lice ap­proval.

He said he could not say with cer­tain­ty if the de­ci­sion was di­rect­ly tied to SOE reg­u­la­tions, but that ex­pla­na­tion was giv­en.