Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has shed light on his where­abouts Mon­day, not­ing that one of his broth­ers has died.

Lawyers have ques­tioned why a State of Emer­gency (SoE) was pro­claimed by the Gov­ern­ment with­out reg­u­la­tions be­ing in place.

AM­CHAM T&T has said that it is pleased that the Gov­ern­ment is tak­ing ad­di­tion­al steps to com­bat out-of-con­trol crime in T&T.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar has re­spond­ed to the de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency in T&T.

Crim­i­nol­o­gist Dr Randy Seep­er­sad is ex­press­ing scep­ti­cism in re­sponse to the gov­ern­ment's an­nounce­ment of a State of Emer­gency.

Act­ing At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Stu­art Young has out­lined the specifics of a State of Emer­gency (SoE) de­clared to ad­dress es­ca­lat­ing crim­i­nal vi­o­lence in Trinidad and To­ba­go. Young em­pha­sised that the mea­sures aim to tar­get vi­o­lent crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty, par­tic­u­lar­ly in­volv­ing il­le­gal firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, and ex­plo­sives, while en­sur­ing that law-abid­ing cit­i­zens' rights are min­i­mal­ly im­pact­ed.

Pres­i­dent of the Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion (DO­MA), Gre­go­ry Aboud is throw­ing sup­port be­hind the gov­ern­ment's lat­est tar­get­ed ap­proach at ar­rest­ing the crime sit­u­a­tion.

Cre­ative Di­rec­tor of Tribe, Valmi­ki Ma­haraj, says the gov­ern­ment's re­cent­ly an­nounced State of Emer­gency is nec­es­sary as Car­ni­val 2025 nears.

The busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty is wel­com­ing the State of Emer­gency, say­ing it will build con­fi­dence among the cit­i­zen­ry at a time when T&T is ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the high­est crime rate ever.

The Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC) wel­comes the State of Emer­gency (SoE) as a method to re­duce crime.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Coali­tion of Ser­vices In­dus­tries (TTC­SI) says it ful­ly sup­ports the ini­tia­tives un­der­tak­en by the Gov­ern­ment to ad­dress the per­va­sive crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty that con­tin­ues to threat­en the safe­ty and well-be­ing of our na­tion.

For­mer UNC Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Vas­ant Bharath has said that the de­ci­sion to call a state of emer­gency mere months be­fore a gen­er­al elec­tion, is an in­dict­ment of the Gov­ern­ment.