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

This is in re­sponse to the de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency in this coun­try.

In a me­dia re­lease this morn­ing, the Cham­ber said crime is not on­ly about sav­ing lives but al­so safe­guard­ing liveli­hoods and fos­ter­ing an en­vi­ron­ment con­ducive to eco­nom­ic growth and sta­bil­i­ty. 

The Cham­ber be­lieves this step is nec­es­sary to re­store some sort of nor­mal­cy to so­ci­ety but called on the po­lice to be sen­si­tive to height­ened pub­lic sen­ti­ments and be care­ful to not cre­ate any per­cep­tion of abuse. 

It not­ed that up­hold­ing the rights and dig­ni­ty of all cit­i­zens is cru­cial to main­tain­ing pub­lic trust and en­sur­ing the suc­cess of this mea­sure.

The Cham­ber added that the SoE can­not be a stand­alone so­lu­tion and it must be part of a broad­er, com­pre­hen­sive, and sus­tain­able plan to com­bat crime ef­fec­tive­ly.