Canadian travellers warned of gang violence in popular Caribbean tourist destination [Video]

Flights are still running to Trinidad and Tobago from Pearson Airport in Mississauga amid a state of emergency and a travel advisory warning Canadians of gang violence in the Caribbean country.

Officials of the twin island country issued a nationwide state of emergency on Monday in response to ongoing gang violence including more than 250 gang-related homicides.

From armed robberies and carjackings to sexual assaults, kidnappings and murder, the Canadian government says weapons have been used on victims who refuse to cooperate with criminal’s demands.

“The criminal gangs via the use of the high-powered assault weapons and other illegal firearms in areas of Trinidad and possibly Tobago are likely to immediately increase their brazen acts of violence in reprisal shootings on a scale so extensive that it threatens persons and will endanger public safety,” Acting Attorney General Stuart Young said.

Under the state of emergency, security forces have increased rights …