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Caribbean & Central America - September 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)

Race at heart of Trinidad’s crisis

Goaded by 11 murders in a weekend, and by undisclosed intelligence that was said to reveal an “immediate threat and endangerment of public safety”, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar of Trinidad & Tobago declared a limited State of Emergency (SOE) for an initial period of 15 days on 21 August. At the end of the first week of the emergency, 789 people had been arrested.

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