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

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr. Shane Mo­hammed has de­scribed the re­cent de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency (SoE) as an “act of des­per­a­tion” by a prime min­is­ter fac­ing mount­ing po­lit­i­cal and so­cial pres­sures.

South Ko­re­an of­fi­cials said Mon­day they will con­duct safe­ty in­spec­tions of all Boe­ing 737-800 air­craft op­er­at­ed by the coun­try’s air­lines, as they strug­gle to de­ter­mine what caused a plane crash that killed 179 peo­ple a day ear­li­er.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Deputy Chief Sec­re­tary Faith Breb­nor says the gov­ern­ment wait­ed too long to de­clare a state of emer­gency, as mur­ders in Trinidad and To­ba­go have reached record lev­els.