Cre­ative Di­rec­tor of Tribe, Valmi­ki Ma­haraj, says the gov­ern­ment's re­cent­ly an­nounced State of Emer­gency is nec­es­sary as Car­ni­val 2025 nears.

The busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty is wel­com­ing the State of Emer­gency, say­ing it will build con­fi­dence among the cit­i­zen­ry at a time when T&T is ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the high­est crime rate ever.

The Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC) wel­comes the State of Emer­gency (SoE) as a method to re­duce crime.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Coali­tion of Ser­vices In­dus­tries (TTC­SI) says it ful­ly sup­ports the ini­tia­tives un­der­tak­en by the Gov­ern­ment to ad­dress the per­va­sive crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty that con­tin­ues to threat­en the safe­ty and well-be­ing of our na­tion.

For­mer UNC Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Vas­ant Bharath has said that the de­ci­sion to call a state of emer­gency mere months be­fore a gen­er­al elec­tion, is an in­dict­ment of the Gov­ern­ment.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce says it re­mains ready and will­ing to sup­port na­tion­al ef­forts to tack­le crime.  

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr. Shane Mo­hammed has de­scribed the re­cent de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency (SoE) as an “act of des­per­a­tion” by a prime min­is­ter fac­ing mount­ing po­lit­i­cal and so­cial pres­sures.

South Ko­re­an of­fi­cials said Mon­day they will con­duct safe­ty in­spec­tions of all Boe­ing 737-800 air­craft op­er­at­ed by the coun­try’s air­lines, as they strug­gle to de­ter­mine what caused a plane crash that killed 179 peo­ple a day ear­li­er.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Deputy Chief Sec­re­tary Faith Breb­nor says the gov­ern­ment wait­ed too long to de­clare a state of emer­gency, as mur­ders in Trinidad and To­ba­go have reached record lev­els.

Act­ing At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Stu­art Young has out­lined the specifics of a State of Emer­gency (SoE) de­clared to ad­dress es­ca­lat­ing crim­i­nal vi­o­lence in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

As 2024 comes to a close in a few hours, the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has record­ed 119 road fa­tal­i­ties for this year.

New Year cel­e­bra­tions have been put on hold for a La Hor­quet­ta fam­i­ly now mourn­ing the loss of one of their rel­a­tives af­ter a car crash in Ari­ma on Sat­ur­day night.  So in­tense was the crash that a tree, which the car ran in­to was up­root­ed from its spot.