PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar tonight announced that President George Maxwell Richards will declare a limited state of emergency in “hot spots” across the country as law enforcement officials seek to come to grips with an upsurge of murders in Trinidad and Tobago.
Persad Bissessar told a news conference from her private home at Palmiste, south of here that the “limited state of emergency is a crime fighting measure…and the area, what is called hot spots have been identified by the law enforcement officials”.
She said the limited state of emergency would go into effect from midnight and that the actual times of the curfew will be announced tomorrow Monday. (CMC)
Limited state of emergency in TT
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