LatinNews Daily Report - 15 January 2013

SECURITY | Trinidad calls out army. Following the announcement on 7 January of a plan to give the military powers of arrest, on 14 January Trinidad & Tobago’s Minister of National Security Jack Warner announced an increased deployment of the army to counter a surge in crime in the first two weeks of January.  Five more military camps are to be set up in crime hotspots across the country after a weekend in which nine people were murdered and the murder total for the year reached 16 after just two weeks.  Warner said that the approaching Carnival season made it essential to take such a drastic measure to ensure citizens’ security.  Warner said: “There were 26 murders for the month of January last year and I have no intention of coming close to that figure.  It is senseless and it is foolish.”