Hu­man rights ad­vo­cates are warn­ing that the State could face se­ri­ous con­se­quences if a de­tainee held un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) dies in cus­tody dur­ing the cur­rent State of Emer­gency, as con­cerns grow over the use of ex­tra­or­di­nary de­ten­tion pow­ers.

For over six decades, house ar­rests in T&T have emerged as a rare but pow­er­ful le­gal mea­sure.

For years, Den­nis Achargee was a fa­mil­iar face in Quar­ry Road, Siparia: a me­chan­ic, for­mer cy­clist and neigh­bour re­mem­bered by res­i­dents as a qui­et man who would stop to talk and greet those around him.

De­spite a break-in that dis­rupt­ed op­er­a­tions at the Pro Cathe­dral of Our La­dy of Per­pet­u­al Help in San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day morn­ing, parish priest Fr Matthew d’Here­aux said the in­ci­dent would not stop God’s work.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has the foun­da­tion to be­come a re­gion­al play­er in ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence, but the coun­try must ur­gent­ly strength­en its poli­cies and safe­guards as it moves ahead with am­bi­tious plans for large-scale AI in­fra­struc­ture, says the lo­cal re­searcher be­hind the coun­try’s lat­est glob­al AI as­sess­ment.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young has wel­comed the cor­dial diplo­mat­ic ex­changes be­tween T&T and Venezuela fol­low­ing last month’s earth­quakes, while cau­tion­ing that “much deep­er is­sues” be­tween the two coun­tries re­main un­re­solved.

A sus­pect want­ed by the po­lice was ar­rest­ed and a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion seized dur­ing in­tel­li­gence-led po­lice op­er­a­tions in La Ro­maine over two days, as the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) in­ten­si­fied an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es across the South­ern and South West­ern Di­vi­sions.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has ex­tend­ed its Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert, warn­ing that un­set­tled weath­er is now ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue in­to Sun­day.

A 22-year-old Mor­vant man who had re­cent­ly signed up to join the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment was shot dead this morn­ing at the Unipet Gas Sta­tion at the cor­ner of Mor­vant Old Road and the East­ern Main Road, Laven­tille.

For­mer FI­FA vice-pres­i­dent and ex-gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Jack Warn­er has won a de­ci­sive le­gal vic­to­ry af­ter the High Court per­ma­nent­ly stayed the ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings brought against him by the Unit­ed States, bring­ing to an end a decade-long le­gal bat­tle that reached the Ju­di­cial Com­mit­tee of the Privy Coun­cil.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Shane Mo­hammed be­lieves the High Court’s de­ci­sion to per­ma­nent­ly stay the ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings against for­mer FI­FA vice-pres­i­dent and for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Jack Warn­er should prompt a wider re­view of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s con­sti­tu­tion­al and ju­di­cial sys­tems, ar­gu­ing that the decade-long le­gal bat­tle ex­posed weak­ness­es in how jus­tice is ad­min­is­tered.

Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed, his wife Genevieve and their for­mi­da­ble le­gal team were left dis­ap­point­ed last night, af­ter Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh and two Ap­pel­late Judges grant­ed a stay of a de­ci­sion of three of their col­leagues to or­der them re­leased and placed un­der house ar­rest.