A list of persons who returned to Trinidad and Tobago in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic and which is being circulated via social media is “printed sensitive information which is confidential within national security,” top cop Gary Griffith said in a news release on Friday. “The TTPS has not issued the information which is currently being shared online,” the Commissioner said as he called on citizens “to immediately cease from forwarding, and thus perpetuating the spread of this unauthorized information.” Anyone who continues to spread the unauthorized information is liable to a fine of TT$200 or face one month in prison, the Commissioner noted as he  outlined the relevant legislation. The Summary of Offences Act Chapter 11:02 states:

• 106 Any person who— (a) sends any message by telephone which is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene, or menacing character; or
• (b) sends any message by telephone, or any telegram, which he knows to be false, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any other person; or
• (c) persistently makes telephone calls without reasonable cause and for any such purpose as mentioned above, is liable on summary conviction to a fine of two hundred dollars or to imprisonment for one month.