The Gov­ern­ment will go to Par­lia­ment next week Wednes­day to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency by an­oth­er three months.

The fol­low­ing is a mo­tion on the Par­lia­ment’s Or­der Pa­per to be moved by the Prime Min­is­ter.

“1. WHERE­AS it is en­act­ed by sec­tion 8(1) of the Con­sti­tu­tion of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go that the Pres­i­dent may from time to time make a Procla­ma­tion de­clar­ing that a state of pub­lic emer­gency ex­ists;

AND WHERE­AS it is en­act­ed by sec­tion 9(2) of the Con­sti­tu­tion that a Procla­ma­tion made by the Pres­i­dent for the pur­pos­es of and in ac­cor­dance with sec­tion 8 shall, un­less pre­vi­ous­ly re­voked, re­main in force for fif­teen days;

AND WHERE­AS it is en­act­ed by sec­tion 10(1) of the Con­sti­tu­tion that be­fore its ex­pi­ra­tion the Procla­ma­tion may be ex­tend­ed from time to time by res­o­lu­tion sup­port­ed by a sim­ple ma­jor­i­ty vote of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, so how­ev­er that no ex­ten­sion ex­ceeds three months and the ex­ten­sions do not in the ag­gre­grate ex­ceed six months;

AND WHERE­AS the Pres­i­dent, by Procla­ma­tion made on the 15th day of May, 2021, de­clared that a state of pub­lic emer­gency ex­ists in the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go;

AND WHERE­AS the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, by res­o­lu­tion on the 24th day of May, 2021, ex­tend­ed the said Procla­ma­tion for a pe­ri­od of three months;

AND WHERE­AS it is nec­es­sary and ex­pe­di­ent that the said Procla­ma­tion should be ex­tend­ed for a fur­ther pe­ri­od of three months:

NOW, THERE­FORE, BE IT RE­SOLVED that the Procla­ma­tion made by the Pres­i­dent on the 15th day of May, 2021 de­clar­ing that a state of pub­lic emer­gency ex­ists in the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go be ex­tend­ed for a fur­ther pe­ri­od of three months.”

The bill will re­quire on­ly a sim­ple ma­jor­i­ty for its pas­sage.