00:00Just hours before Trinidad and Tobago is set to return to life without a state of emergency,
00:05Prime Minister Kamala Posad-Bassese declared on Facebook that the UNC-led government and the security services are prepared for the end of the SOE.
00:13The Prime Minister said that if anyone wants to mash up the place and burn down the country, go ahead, that's their democratic choice,
00:21but she warned that anyone wanting to do this should understand by now that she is willing to do what it takes to keep decent, law-abiding citizens safe,
00:31so be certain that she will meet them head-on.
00:34The government did not get the required support of independent senators for the bill for the measure that it intended to use after the SOE, Zones of Special Operations.
00:44However, the Prime Minister issued a warning to criminal gangs in Trinidad and Tobago and the SOE detainees released from prison.
00:52The Prime Minister said she wants them to know that decent, law-abiding citizens are fed up of their criminality
00:59and that she will have no hesitation in enacting another SOE if they, as she puts it, cannot behave themselves.
01:07The Prime Minister further warned that they will be returned straight to prison and this time,
01:12their friends and family who aid their criminality will accompany them.
01:17Some of the state of emergency detainees were released from prison on Friday and on Saturday.
01:22The Prime Minister said that if criminals want to terrorize law-abiding citizens and their families,
01:26she will do everything legally possible to terrorize criminals and their families.
01:31The Prime Minister, who chairs the National Security Council, said those who commit brutality against law-abiding citizens
01:36will be met with brutality from her, as she declared that's a promise.
01:41Prime Minister Pasabas said it's a reality that what she described as the combination of American assistance to secure the nation's borders,
01:50the competent leadership of Police Commissioner Alistair Govaro,
01:54and the incarceration of persons detained under the SOE using PDOs
01:59all contributed to 257 less murders in 2025 compared to 2024.
02:05The Prime Minister further said that the local drug mafia financiers' money laundering business fronts
02:11cannot survive without who she only identified as their PNM stooges,
02:16manipulating economic, national security and financial policies and institutions.
02:21Prime Minister Pasabas further said the PNM government of the last 10 years operated as a narco government.
02:27The PNM, which is in opposition, has consistently denied any such claims.
02:33Prime Minister Pasabas said that it's time to tip the scales in this country toward law-abiding citizens
02:38and that she will use every means within the law to make criminals and their friends and families live an absolute hell.
02:46At midnight tonight, Saturday, January 31st, the current state of emergency ends.
02:50It was declared in July of last year and did not include a curfew and did not have any limitations on public gatherings.
02:59Jewel Brown, TV6 News.
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