00:00The government is set to return to the Parliament on Wednesday, seeking a further three-month extension to the present
00:06state of emergency.
00:08Now issues such as national security, criminal enterprises, murders and other serious crime continue to be in focus as it
00:16pertains to the SOE.
00:17We are here on the streets of Port of Spain to find out what is in the mind of citizens
00:22and if they think that a present state of emergency has been effective.
00:26No, not at all, not really. The complete SOE, yes, but that is only because nobody was allowed to go
00:34out.
00:34But with this kind of half a SOE, it's not really making any difference.
00:38Because as you can see, every day is something new, somebody going to shoot, just finding missing children, dead.
00:46If you can bring people, independence ready, and hang them everywhere you can see, crime goes down top.
00:55I hang them when I pray when everybody is drunk and drinking rum. Hang them there.
01:00Emmanuel Ragunanan believes at the heart of the problem is corruption.
01:05And if a corruption going from that level to this level, how are we going to get the proper equality?
01:13How are we going to get proper things done?
01:15Children have not been spared, although the SOE is in effect.
01:18In fact, over the last month, three of them were killed, the latest being 12-year-old Mercedes Lane.
01:26Many have expressed their sadness and outrage via social media.
01:30But with protests seen over the past few weeks pertaining to the Joshua Samaru-Kaya Sealy matter,
01:36we decided to pose this question to the people as well.
01:40So do you think that people should be out protesting about something like this?
01:45They should be out protesting for everything, because right now the country is a total mess.
01:49They come back to our mindset again, and people, we are putting our interests sometimes in the wrong place,
01:55and we are focusing on the wrong things.
01:58The things that really matter, like children.
02:01The little child in Tobago that went missing.
02:04No, I am not surprised, because it's just, you know, it's not going to generate as much of a buzz,
02:13because people are kind of desensitized at this point.
02:16And commenting on the recent peace walk, Anisha Lackan questions why it was shut down,
02:21as she shares an unorthodox opinion on the police.
02:25Put on all their guns on them, they don't put on their guns.
02:27Be the biggest example.
02:30So if the police put down their guns, though, you really think the criminals are going to put down their
02:34guns?
02:36The example comes from them.
02:38And with rival gangs in Port of Spain now being encouraged to form a truce in the name of peace,
02:44Tishon Colreo doesn't see the need for the SOA extension.
02:48But is it sustainable?
02:50I feel like I could go stay for a year, because everybody were peace.
02:54Everybody were peace. Everybody was one.
02:56I love it. I could go anywhere.
02:58But Kelvin Tum calls on certain criminal elements to pay up.
03:02Now, the children who get killed in the war, they need to compensate the family,
03:06because somebody rising and study the laws of the loved ones.
03:09Before you come and shake a next man and study, compensate the family for the laws of the loved ones.
03:13Finally, we bring you the perspective of Philip Black Sage Murray on the SOA extension.
03:19Well, I have to tell this lovely lady, I don't agree with the state of emergency.
03:25In fact, I think it is a disgrace.
03:28There are still too many murders in the place.
03:31And there you have it.
03:32The voices of the people in words and ex-tempo.
03:36Reporting from downtown Port of Spain, Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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