Here are the key highlights from the press conference held by acting Attorney General Stuart Young and Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds on the national state of emergency declared in Trinidad and Tobago on December 30. pic.twitter.com/ToX86xgVAS
— T&T Newsday (@Newsday_TT) December 30, 2024
Acting AG Stuart Young says schools will not be affected by this state of emergency. @Newsday_TT
— Ken Chee Hing (@NewsdayEditr) December 30, 2024
Acting AG Stuart Young sidesteps a question posed to Nat Sec Min Hinds on whether or not he will step down as minister. Young says they are busy; ask questions based solely on the state of emergency. @Newsday_TT
— Ken Chee Hing (@NewsdayEditr) December 30, 2024
Acting AG Stuart Young says calling a state of emergency is not necessarily an admission by govt that its crime-fighting measures have failed. It's simply a response to intelligence of heightened gang activities and the potential for bloodshed by warring gangs. @Newsday_TT
— Ken Chee Hing (@NewsdayEditr) December 30, 2024
Acting AG Stuart Young says private security firms will not be used during the state of emergency and all police officers on leave will be called out during the SoE. @Newsday_TT
— Ken Chee Hing (@NewsdayEditr) December 30, 2024
Acting AG Stuart Young says one of the reasons for not having a curfew or any limitations to public gatherings was to factor in the possibility that this state of emergency could very well go into the Carnival period. @Newsday_TT
— Ken Chee Hing (@NewsdayEditr) December 30, 2024
Acting AG Stuart Young says the state of emergency will not stop people from using or discharging fireworks in the run-up to the New Year. @Newsday_TT
— Ken Chee Hing (@NewsdayEditr) December 30, 2024
Acting AG Stuart Young says there are many mischief-makers in TT. So going forward, there will be 3 sources of accurate information: the Min of Communications, the Min of Nat Sec and the Min of the Attorney General. @Newsday_TT
— Ken Chee Hing (@NewsdayEditr) December 30, 2024
Acting AG Stuart Young says there is no plan for curfews in certain areas. He says a state of emergency is countrywide and there is no sense having curfews in specific areas. If a curfew was to be implemented, it would be throughout TT. @Newsday_TT
— Ken Chee Hing (@NewsdayEditr) December 3
