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Security & Strategic Review August 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Emergency declared in response to spate of murders
On 22 August prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar imposed a state of emergency in response to what she described as a ‘crime spree [of] wanton acts of violence [by] marauding acts of groups of thugs bent on creating havoc’. She added that this spree was gang-related and linked to recent drug seizures and the government’s efforts to prevent Trinidad from being used as a transhipment point for northward-bound shipments of cocaine. Within eight days, 820 people had been arrested, but only slightly more than a third of them, on charges of involvement in gang activities.
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