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THE day after the end state of emergency (SoE), which began December 30 and came to an end at midnight on April 13, Newsday took to the streets of Port of Spain seeking opinions from members of the public on the effectiveness of the measure which sought to address a rise in gang-related violence.

“Honestly, the effectiveness is at a point where I completely forgot we even had a SoE,” said Christopher Roxborough.

“I don’t see any kind of effect from it. I think the last thing we heard was that they got some guns a little while ago, but that’s pretty much the most I heard.”