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Parliament gives green light to extending state of emergency by three months

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Oct 31, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government Friday night used its overwhelming majority in the Parliament to get a three month extension of the existing state of emergency (SoE) even as the  Defence Minister Wayne Sturge used an invocation of the public interest to confirm or deny whether or  not members of the army had been put on high alert.

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