The State of Emer­gency (SoE) has been ex­tend­ed un­til Sep­tem­ber af­ter the Gov­ern­ment se­cured a ma­jor­i­ty vote in Par­lia­ment short­ly af­ter mid­night on Thurs­day.

The mo­tion to ex­tend the SoE was passed at 12.27 am with 26 UNC MPs and the two TPP MPs vot­ing in favour. Twelve Op­po­si­tion PNM MPs present vot­ed against it.

Pi­lot­ing the mo­tion, At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie point­ed to re­duced mur­der rates and ar­gued the mea­sure was pro­duc­ing re­sults.