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LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR

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January 28, 2025

Why Is Trinidad & Tobago Facing a Surge in Crime?

Trinidad and Tobago’s government declared a state of emergency last month amid a rising crime rate. Police officers in the Caribbean country are pictured. // File Photo: Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.

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Winston Dookeran, former minister of foreign affairs of Trinidad and Tobago and retired professor of practice at The University of the West Indies: “Rising violence from organized criminal groups crossed the red line in Trinidad and Tobago. At the core of this complex issue is the ease of trafficking high-powered small arms and ammunition, an issue of global dimensions, with the Caribbean, located between North and South America, being an ‘open’ border. The United Nations, in recognition of this, formally enacted The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in 2013 ‘to regulate the international trade of small arms and ammunition and reduce the illicit arms trade and improve regional security.’ Trinidad and Tobago offered to host the secretariat of the ATT, as the country is a strategic location for the growing trade of such weapons in the hemisphere. It had the full support of Caribbean countries. Regrettably, we lost the bid by a very narrow margin to Switzerland at a plenary session held in Mexico. I was Trinidad and Tobago’s foreign minister at the time and lamented…”

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