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The Opposition People's National Movement is calling on the government to address the nation and provide clarity on an advisory issued by the United States Embassy earlier today. An advisory that has already sparked speculation and conspiracy theories.
Alicia Boucher tells us more.
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00:00Chairman of the People's National Movement, Marvin Gonzalez, calls the new advisory issued
00:05by the United States Embassy and the surrounding uncertainty a concerning matter.
00:10We are taking note of a lot of the information on this issue that are already in the public
00:16domain.
00:17The issue by the U.S. Embassy, we are hearing talk of persons being in safe houses and what
00:22have you.
00:24So people are concerned, citizens are rightly concerned.
00:28What I am also very concerned about is the vacuum of absence or silence from the government
00:35on this particular issue.
00:36Gonzalez states that the government is bound to be aware of the information released by
00:40the U.S. Embassy as well as the surrounding discourse.
00:44But the government, through its spokesperson, the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Homeland
00:50Security, the Prime Minister, the Attorney General, they must speak to the population on these
00:56very important things.
00:58They cannot stay quiet.
01:00And the more you stay quiet, it is going to cause more unease in the national population.
01:06So that is where I take issue.
01:08And his call to the government?
01:10If you can't speak, please speak to the population urgently.
01:14Meanwhile, MP Fadigo Martin Northeast, Colm Inbert, believes the information would become
01:20distorted without hearing from those in authority.
01:23He says, as far as he is aware, there is only one U.S. facility in the country.
01:27Now, what are U.S. government official facilities?
01:30The embassy?
01:31I can't think of many more U.S. government facilities.
01:34That's the only one I know.
01:36So I'm not sure what this means.
01:38But what happens when something like this is issued?
01:41It spawns all sorts of rumors and conspiracy theories.
01:45He says it is the government through their respective ministers to shed light on what is taking place.
01:51The PNM notes that it's happening at a time when there is a state of emergency and where the
02:20substantive commissioner of police, Alistair Guevara, is in the United States having been
02:25granted approval to attend a conference.
02:28These are not normal times and we need the heads of our national security to be on the
02:35job to protect the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago.
02:39Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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