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TRINIDAD | Kamla Persad-Bissessar Declares New State of Emergency as T&T's Crime Crisis Deepens

By WiredJa Staff | March 3, 2026

Trinidad and Tobago is under a State of Public Emergency — again.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar made the announcement Monday night, effective Tuesday, March 3, 2026, citing a surge in violent gang-related crime, mass shootings, multiple fatalities, and what she described as credible intelligence of planned attacks against police officers, prison officers, and members of the legal services.

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Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has declared a new State of Public Emergency (SoE), effective Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Attorney Ben Crump, second from left, walks with Ron Lacks, left, Alfred Lacks Carter, third from left, both grandsons of Henrietta Lacks, and other descendants of Lacks, outside the federal courthouse in Baltimore in 2021. Novartis settled a lawsuit with the Lacks estate this month that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells. AP Photo/Steve Ruark, File

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From left are Guyana's president Irfaan Ali; ExxonMobile Executive Director Darren Wood and Founder and Executive Director of STEMGuyana, Karen Abrams.

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Veteran Trade Unionist Lincoln Lewis of the Guyana Trades Union Congress, GTUC

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Dubai International Airport, Closede indefinitely as a result of the unprovoked Attack on Iran by the United States and Israel.

CARIBBEAN | When the Gulf Burns, the Caribbean Bleeds

Dubai's Shutdown and the Price Small Nations Pay On the morning of February 28, 2026, the world’s busiest airport went silent. Dubai International — the thundering crossroads that handles nearly 100 million...

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CUBA | “Independence or Death”: Díaz-Canel Fires Back as Trump Floats a “Friendly Takeover” of Cuba

Washington’s empire-speak meets Havana’s revolutionary resolve — and the Caribbean is caught in the crossfire By WiredJa Staff | February 27, 2026 | Havana / Washington “We will fight, we will struggle,...

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Shadow Minister of Environment and Climate Resilience, Omar Newell, MP

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KINGSTON, Jamaica February 27, 2026 - — The same ministry driving Jamaica's biggest infrastructure projects is also the one supposed to keep those projects in check. Shadow Minister Omar Newell...

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio participates in a group photo with Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads of government in Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis, on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026. JONATHAN ERNST POOL/AFP via Getty Images

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, the grandson and trusted man of Raúl Castro

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Jamaica's Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness addressing the opening of CARICOM 50.

CARICOM | The Jamaican Statesman and the Trinidad and Tobago Surrogate

Holness Speaks for the Caribbean. Persad-Bissessar Speaks for Washington. By WiredJa Editorial | February 26, 2026 | Basseterre, BASSETERRE, St. Kitts & Nevis - When Jamaican Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness rose to address...

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