Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP) in charge of Op­er­a­tions and Gold Com­man­der for the State of Emer­gency (SoE), Suzette Mar­tin, in­sists the SoE is work­ing and has had some suc­cess­es notwith­stand­ing con­tin­ued homi­cides.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Arou­ca/Lopinot Mar­vin Gon­za­les has called on the Gov­ern­ment to end the cur­rent State of Emer­gency, ar­gu­ing that it has failed to ad­dress ris­ing crime and has in­stead left cit­i­zens liv­ing in fear.

A 25-year-old Dun­can Street man, who gave po­lice a fake name, was ar­rest­ed on Mon­day night for phys­i­cal­ly as­sault­ing the daugh­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der.

Tourism Sec­re­tary Zor­isha Hack­ett said her di­vi­sion is work­ing close­ly with stake­hold­ers to at­tract re­turn vis­i­tors to To­ba­go.