Economy / Trinidad & Tobago
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No To State Of Emergency
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The government has rejected calls to implement a state of emergency in an effort to control the rampant and increasingly violent crime wave afflicting Trinidad & Tobago. With 33 murders in the first 36 days of 2007, and a high profile kidnapping of a prominent local businesswoman, the issue has shot back up the political agenda. It promises to dominate the upcoming presidential election, due by the end of the year, and Prime Minister Patrick Manning's failure to deal with the situation over the past four years could yet unravel his plans for a third term in