Browne: No recent change in Canada’s risk rating

Browne: No recent change in Canada’s risk rating for T&T

Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne says Trinidad and Tobago maintains regular communication with all its partners in the international sphere about their advisories and other relevant matters.
The response to Guardian Media followed a report that the Government of Canada issued a travel advisory informing potential visitors to this country to exercise a high degree of caution due to violent crime.

The advisory referred to crimes such as armed robberies, assaults, sexual assault, kidnapping, terrorism and home invasions. “The risk rating has not changed in several years but we do update the text for the travel advisory periodically. The recent change on March 28 was due to an update to the emergency contact information,” the official said.

The official added the rating was last updated in 2012 and again in 2020 for COVID-19.


Another idiot in this Government...

Trini Comments:

George Lewis



Claire Rostant

Let me get this straight. Canada's Trinidad & Tobago travel advisory to its citizens is this. " Crime Island of Trinidad. Violent crime, including armed robberies, assaults and sexual assault, occurs frequently on the island of Trinidad, especially in the capital, Port of Spain. Tourists have been targeted. Since 2018, incidents of kidnapping for ransom have increased. Cruise ship passengers should be very careful when walking around the docks in Port of Spain. Shootings, kidnappings and other gang- and drug-related violence also occur. There is a risk of being in the wrong place at the wrong time." But our Government's response is this. " Browne said, “We remain in the same advisory category as over 90 other nations, including The Bahamas, Guyana, Jamaica, the UK, Denmark, India, Spain, and Germany. There are occasional changes to some of the narratives conveyed in the various travel advisories, based on media reports and other inputs.” " The risk rating has not changed in several years but we do update the text for the travel advisory periodically." And as far as Browne is concerned, no big deal. That's like Al Capone telling a reporter when he was in prison that the public needs to understand that the 200 men he slaughtered were "bums" and he did the public a service by killing them. No admission of guilt in the case of the PNM for foreign travel advisories just a " well, you know, other countries are in the same boat." How pathetic. How very responsible of Browne.

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