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Residents of several communities considered “high-crime” areas have expressed mixed views on whether the latest State of Emergency (SoE) will produce any meaningful results.
The SoE, which was declared on Tuesday via a statement from Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, is the third such response to violent crime in the past two years.
An SoE was declared in December 2024 by the former People’s National Movement (PNM)-led government in response to an uptick in gang violence in and around east Port-of-Spain and Laventille.
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