Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve were yes­ter­day giv­en a day to analyse po­lice records re­lat­ed to the duo’s ar­rests and de­ten­tion for an al­leged mur­der con­spir­a­cy, to de­ter­mine whether they will pro­ceed with lit­i­ga­tion over the is­sue.

Sev­en al­leged gang­sters, in­clud­ing a gang leader, were or­dered to be de­tained at two fa­cil­i­ties in Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders gazetted yes­ter­day.

The Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) is ex­pect­ing to give its re­port on Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro soon, says chair­man Dr Wen­dell Wal­lace.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) deputy leader San­jiv Bood­hu has rub­bished Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der’s in­sis­tence that there is no po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence in the is­suance of Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs), ac­cus­ing him of mis­un­der­stand­ing the very reg­u­la­tions that gov­ern the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE).

The British High Com­mis­sion is stand­ing by the find­ings con­tained in its Coun­try Pol­i­cy and In­for­ma­tion Note (CPIN) on Trinidad and To­ba­go, which es­ti­mat­ed that 186 gangs were op­er­at­ing in this coun­try in 2023.

Deputy Speak­er of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Dr Aiy­na Ali has urged grad­u­at­ing stu­dents of San Fer­nan­do TML Pri­ma­ry School to safe­guard their men­tal health and be­lieve in them­selves, es­pe­cial­ly dur­ing mo­ments of self-doubt, as they pre­pare to tran­si­tion to sec­ondary school.

Head of the Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion Is­rael Khan says he was per­son­al­ly shocked by the al­leged po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a mag­is­trate and warned that while the mat­ter could dam­age pub­lic con­fi­dence in the Ju­di­cia­ry, the in­sti­tu­tion should re­frain from com­ment­ing un­til in­ves­ti­ga­tors have com­plet­ed their work.

For­mer Jus­tice min­is­ter Prakash Ra­mad­har has come out in de­fence of the Ju­di­cia­ry, warn­ing that al­le­ga­tions against ju­di­cial of­fi­cers must be ground­ed in ev­i­dence and due process, as pub­lic de­bate con­tin­ues over in­tel­li­gence re­ports al­leg­ing that a mag­is­trate was in­volved in mon­ey laun­der­ing and formed part of an al­leged con­spir­a­cy.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty’s (WASA) board is re­view­ing short-term ex­ec­u­tive con­tracts as part of a fresh re­align­ment of the State util­i­ty’s se­nior man­age­ment struc­ture, with sev­er­al act­ing ap­point­ments now at risk of not be­ing re­newed.

A 46-year-old busi­ness­man was stabbed to death fol­low­ing an ar­gu­ment with a woman he was in a re­la­tion­ship with at her Ch­agua­nas home on Sun­day night.

Po­lice in the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion say that while they have not record­ed a spe­cif­ic uptick in the num­ber of re­port­ed rob­beries around the Beetham High­way, they are aware of tac­tics be­ing used by crim­i­nals and in­tend to de­ploy more pa­trols to quell fur­ther at­tacks.

From a hill­top in St Barbs, Laven­tille, the view stretch­es across Port-of-Spain, of­fer­ing one of the cap­i­tal’s most strik­ing panora­mas.