31/07/2025
I’m in total agreement on this
Picture this: you spend years working day and night, making sacrifices, taking loans, and pushing yourself just to build a safe and comfortable life for your family. You finally own your home, your car, and you’re proud of what you’ve achieved.
Then one night, someone decides to invade that hard-earned peace. Not because they need to, but because of envy, jealousy, or sheer disregard for the law. They break into your home, armed and ready, with no thought for the lives they might destroy.
In that moment, what are you expected to do? Beg for mercy? Hope they leave without hurting you? Watch helplessly as your children scream in fear, your spouse pleads for safety, and everything you worked so hard for is threatened in an instant?
No law-abiding citizen should ever have to live like that. We should not have to cower in our own homes, wondering if tonight is the night a criminal decides our family will become their next target.
That is why I stand firmly in support of a Stand Your Ground Law for Trinidad and Tobago. It’s not about encouraging violence; it’s about giving honest, hardworking people the right to protect themselves and their loved ones when criminals show up at their door.
We cannot continue to let criminals rule by fear while decent citizens remain powerless. The consultations on this bill are ongoing, but one thing is certain: our people deserve the legal right to fight back when faced with danger.
Because at the end of the day, when a criminal breaks into your home, you shouldn’t have to choose between being a victim or breaking the law to survive. You should have the right to stand your ground.
