The State has of­fi­cial­ly des­ig­nat­ed three ma­jor Mid­dle East­ern para­mil­i­tary and po­lit­i­cal or­gan­i­sa­tions as ter­ror­ist en­ti­ties, trig­ger­ing an im­me­di­ate freeze on any Trinidad and To­ba­go as­sets linked to the groups.

In a sig­nif­i­cant na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty de­vel­op­ment, the High Court of T&T or­dered the freez­ing of all lo­cal prop­er­ty as­so­ci­at­ed with Hezbol­lah, Hamas and the Is­lam­ic Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Guard Corps (IRGC) un­der pro­vi­sions of the An­ti-Ter­ror­ism Act.

The or­ders, pub­lished in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Gazette yes­ter­day (April 13), mark one of the most far-reach­ing ap­pli­ca­tions of the An­ti-Ter­ror­ism Act in re­cent years.