A coali­tion of 11 trade unions is threat­en­ing le­gal ac­tion against the Gov­ern­ment over new­ly im­posed State of Emer­gency (SOE) reg­u­la­tions that re­strict pub­lic demon­stra­tions at 15 des­ig­nat­ed lo­ca­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Speak­ing at a joint press con­fer­ence on Mon­day, TTUTA Pres­i­dent Crys­tal Ashe said the unions’ im­me­di­ate con­cern is what they de­scribe as sweep­ing lim­i­ta­tions on cit­i­zens’ con­sti­tu­tion­al right to protest.

“Our main fo­cus here to­day would be the 15 iden­ti­fi­able lo­ca­tions that we are pro­hib­it­ed from protest­ing, and that is why we’re here,” Ashe said.