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.

Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) leader Nor­man Din­di­al says the Court of Ap­peal’s de­ci­sion to grant a stay in the Hadeed mat­ter rais­es se­ri­ous con­cerns about the sep­a­ra­tion of pow­ers and the use of pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion or­ders (PDOs) dur­ing the State of Emer­gency. 

At­tor­ney Fa­reed Ali says the Court of Ap­peal’s de­ci­sion to or­der the re­lease of busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve did not de­ter­mine whether the al­le­ga­tions against them were valid, but in­stead ad­dressed whether they should re­main in cus­tody as their le­gal chal­lenge pro­ceeds.

A woman linked to the theft of firearms at a mu­nic­i­pal po­lice sta­tion is among three more peo­ple placed un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026.

Al­most a month af­ter his broth­er was shot dead, 40-year-old Akiel Pack­ette met a sim­i­lar fate af­ter gun­men shot him at Quinam Road, Siparia, on Thurs­day night.

A team of at­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing high-risk in­mates Earl Richards and Ra­jaee Ali, along with Cana­di­an YouTu­ber Christo­pher “Christ Must List” Hugh­es, has ac­cused statu­to­ry au­thor­i­ties of again fail­ing to com­ply with manda­to­ry re­port­ing and ac­count­abil­i­ty oblig­a­tions es­tab­lished by Par­lia­ment.

The Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion has is­sued a pub­lic ap­peal high­light­ing what it de­scribes as long­stand­ing is­sues af­fect­ing pris­ons across Trinidad and To­ba­go, call­ing for im­prove­ments to staffing, in­fra­struc­ture, equip­ment and work­ing con­di­tions.

Po­lice are try­ing to iden­ti­fy a man whose de­com­pos­ing body was found float­ing in the St Joseph Riv­er yes­ter­day, as in­ves­ti­ga­tors work to de­ter­mine how he died.

The Caribbean Ex­am­i­na­tions Coun­cil (CXC) has an­nounced sweep­ing changes to its School-Based As­sess­ment (SBA) sys­tem, with tra­di­tion­al SBAs set to be phased out for sev­er­al non-prac­ti­cal Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) and Caribbean Ad­vanced Pro­fi­cien­cy Ex­am­i­na­tion (CAPE) sub­jects be­gin­ning in 2027.

A vis­it by Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der to a Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) de­vel­op­ment in Mal­oney Gar­dens was in­tend­ed to ad­dress res­i­dents’ long­stand­ing con­cerns. How­ev­er, it quick­ly be­came po­lit­i­cal, with the min­is­ter blam­ing the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion for many of the prob­lems raised by res­i­dents and the res­i­dents push­ing back ver­bal­ly.

More than 200 work­ers are fac­ing months of un­cer­tain­ty as Nestlé Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sale process moves in­to its next phase, with the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) re­veal­ing that an in­ter­na­tion­al firm in Switzer­land will over­see the trans­ac­tion while dairy farm­ers con­tin­ue to voice fears over the fu­ture of the lo­cal milk in­dus­try.

The State has been or­dered to pay over $100,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a fe­male bounc­er, who was as­sault­ed and ma­li­cious­ly pros­e­cut­ed af­ter she at­tempt­ed to stop a pair of plain clothes po­lice of­fi­cers from en­ter­ing a night­club with­out pay­ing the $60 cov­er charge.