THA on SoE: No serious crime in Tobago

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly has as­sured the pub­lic that the is­land re­mains safe amid the state of emer­gency de­clared by the gov­ern­ment to­day.

In a me­dia re­lease, the THA re­ferred to the rea­sons giv­en by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for call­ing the SoE, but said To­ba­go has been ex­pe­ri­enc­ing low lev­els of se­ri­ous and or­gan­ised crime. It added that, ac­cord­ing to lo­cal law en­force­ment and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty part­ners, there is no ev­i­dence of the es­ca­la­tion of any gang ac­tiv­i­ty or co­or­di­nat­ed crime on the is­land.

“The THA re­mains in ac­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the TT Po­lice Ser­vice and rel­e­vant na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies to en­sure the im­ple­men­ta­tion of any mea­sures with­in To­ba­go re­mains pro­por­tion­ate, in­tel­li­gence-led, and re­spon­sive to the is­land’s spe­cif­ic se­cu­ri­ty con­text. Our pri­or­i­ty is to pre­serve pub­lic safe­ty while min­imis­ing un­nec­es­sary dis­rup­tion to law­ful eco­nom­ic and so­cial ac­tiv­i­ty.”

The THA en­cour­aged res­i­dents and vis­i­tors to con­tin­ue their nor­mal ac­tiv­i­ties while re­main­ing vig­i­lant and co­op­er­a­tive with in­struc­tions from the pro­tec­tive ser­vices. The THA said it will con­tin­ue to mon­i­tor de­vel­op­ments close­ly and will keep the pub­lic in­formed of any mat­ters di­rect­ly af­fect­ing To­ba­go.

“The safe­ty and well-be­ing of our peo­ple re­main para­mount,” it said.

To­ba­go has record­ed just one mur­der for 2026.