The Unit­ed States, Unit­ed King­dom, and Cana­da are among coun­tries that have is­sued trav­el ad­vi­sories to their cit­i­zens af­ter the de­c­la­ra­tion of the State of Emer­gency in T&T.

In its ad­vi­so­ry dat­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2024, the US Em­bassy said US cit­i­zens in this coun­try should ex­pect an in­creased po­lice and mil­i­tary pres­ence.

“As a re­minder, US gov­ern­ment per­son­nel are pro­hib­it­ed from trav­el­ling to the fol­low­ing ar­eas: Laven­tille (in­clud­ing Pica­dil­ly Street and Char­lotte Street be­tween Ox­ford Street and Park Street), Beetham, Sea Lots, Co­corite, and the in­te­ri­or of Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah and must avoid the fol­low­ing places af­ter dark: beach­es, down­town Port-of-Spain, Fort George, Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah,” it said.

The US Em­bassy re­mind­ed US cit­i­zens to co­op­er­ate with lo­cal au­thor­i­ties dur­ing their SoE-man­dat­ed ac­tiv­i­ties, mon­i­tor rep­utable news out­lets and of­fi­cial Trinidad and To­ba­go gov­ern­ment up­dates, and to car­ry their ID at all times.

On the Gov.UK web­site, the gov­ern­ment of the Unit­ed King­dom ad­vised its cit­i­zens that dur­ing the State of Emer­gency in T&T, se­cu­ri­ty forces can search peo­ple and prop­er­ty with­out a war­rant, ar­rest and de­tain with­out a war­rant, ex­pect height­ened po­lice and mil­i­tary pres­ence and to al­ways car­ry their ID and com­ply with lo­cal au­thor­i­ties.

Sim­i­lar ad­vice was giv­en to Cana­di­an cit­i­zens via the trav­el.gc.ca web­site.