AG Jeremie vows to go after ‘1% gangs’ funding PNM
On that day—June 10, 2026—while piloting a motion in Parliament seeking a three-month extension of the current state of emergency, Attorney General John Jeremie disclosed that the United States government had revoked the visas of certain members of the “1%” in Trinidad and Tobago. “We all know that our American friends have sophisticated means of intelligence gathering. They appear now to have determined that certain individuals should not, as a result of their activities, be travelling to the United States, and they have taken action to ensure that that does not happen,” he said.
Jeremie said the Government was dealing with gangs that were not limited to those identified by numbers such as Sixx, Seven and Eight, nor were they confined to any particular class or geographic location. He said the journalist asked whether several US visas belonging to people associated with the group had been revoked. According to Jeremie, he initially ignored the question but added that he was “subsequently visited in my office by a number of persons who said that their US visas had been revoked. We all know that our American friends have sophisticated means of intelligence gathering.”
Jeremie had also issued a warning to people who target him or Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.“And I add only that if you target me, as I expect you will, or my Prime Minister, as you have, hiding behind the newspapers you control, if, as our intelligence suggests, you have in contemplation more and direct action, the indignity of the cells at Teteron await,” he said. The Attorney General said he would, for the moment, refrain from discussing State leases and what he described as extraordinary steps taken, up to the night of the general election, to secure valuable State lands. “This matter is now before the Commissioner of Police. Mr Speaker, it is also a well-known fact that those opposite not simply turned a blind eye to white-collar gang-related activity, they turned a blind eye to blue-collar crime and the expanding grip of the blue-collar gangs in our society,” he said.