For­mer min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Sub­has Pan­day, has raised con­cerns about some as­pects of the State of Emer­gency (SoE) reg­u­la­tions, ar­gu­ing they em­pow­er po­lice to abuse cit­i­zens with­out le­gal re­course.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Car­la Kan­ga­loo has called on the na­tion to re­flect on the chal­lenges of the past year while em­brac­ing the op­por­tu­ni­ties for growth and re­new­al in the year ahead.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has called on cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go to em­brace the New Year with re­newed hope, uni­ty, and a com­mit­ment to over­com­ing the chal­lenges fac­ing the na­tion.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has called on cit­i­zens to re­flect on the chal­lenges of 2024 and take de­ci­sive ac­tion to cre­ate a bet­ter fu­ture in 2025.

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.

Two of Cari­com’s 15 mem­ber states—Trinidad and To­ba­go and Haiti—have de­clared state of emer­gen­cies (SoE) eight days apart due to ris­ing mur­ders and gun and gang vi­o­lence.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) will screen its two nom­i­nees for the To­ba­go East and West seats on Sat­ur­day, ahead of the Gov­ern­ment’s Par­lia­men­tary cau­cus on Sun­day and Mon­day.

The man sus­pect­ed of beat­ing a fe­male rel­a­tive with a piece of iron, leav­ing her in a co­ma at hos­pi­tal, has been found dead in Carlsen Field.

The Co­or­di­na­tor of the Fire­works Ac­tion Coali­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (FACTT) is ex­press­ing dis­ap­point­ment over, what he de­scribed as Gov­ern­ment’s re­peat­ed fail­ure to guard against the un­reg­u­lat­ed use of fire­works dur­ing the State of Emer­gency.

The month of No­vem­ber of­ten sig­ni­fies prepa­ra­tion for the year’s end, mo­ments of grat­i­tude, and re­flec­tions on ac­com­plish­ments. For Trinidad and To­ba­go, how­ev­er, it was a time marked by eco­nom­ic chal­lenges, tragedy, and crit­i­cal pol­i­cy changes as sev­er­al events cap­tured the coun­try’s at­ten­tion.

Gov­ern­ment is giv­ing the crim­i­nal el­e­ments and cit­i­zens, who may have il­le­gal guns in their pos­ses­sion, a chance to sur­ren­der them dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Yes­ter­day, High Court Judge Maria Wil­son sen­tenced Kurt Wise­man to 15 years in prison for the manslaugh­ter of his un­cle, Glen Chester, re­solv­ing a case that be­gan with a fam­i­ly dis­pute in Waller­field, Ari­ma, in Sep­tem­ber 2013.