Within hours of a massacre at Prizgar Lands, Laventille, the Prime Minister on Monday morning authorized the declaration of a state of emergency.
In a statement coming from the Ministry of Communications citizens were told that President Christine Kangaloo on the advice of the Prime Minister had declared the state of emergency being satisfied that the circumstances of Section 8(2)C of the constitution exists.
“The circumstances warranting the declaration of the public emergency are based on the advice of the TTPS to the National Security Council of heightened criminal activity which endangers the public safety.”
In Laventille overnight, five men were gunned down in an apartment, the latest in a series of killings connected to gang warfare across the East West Corridor.
In the President’s proclamation it was stated, “I am satisfied that a public emergency has risen as a result of the occurrence of action that has been taken or is immediately threatened by a person, of such a nature and on so extensive a scale, as to be likely to endanger the public safety…”
