RHON­DOR DOWLAT

Se­nior Re­porter

Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Fitzger­ald Hinds has is­sued a third de­ten­tion or­der un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2024, amidst ris­ing threats to pub­lic safe­ty and es­ca­lat­ing vi­o­lence against prison of­fi­cers.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands the lat­est or­der, signed on Thurs­day, au­tho­rizes the pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion of Joshua Roberts (al­so known as "Jaf­fa" or "Jaf­far"), of But­ter­cup Av­enue, Pine Set­tle­ment, Ojoe Road, San­gre Grande.

Ac­cord­ing to in­tel­li­gence re­ports quot­ed in a Le­gal No­tice, Roberts had been “re­cruit­ed to car­ry out tar­get­ed at­tacks on prison of­fi­cers, al­leged­ly or­ches­trat­ed by a high-rank­ing in­car­cer­at­ed crim­i­nal, us­ing high-pow­ered weapons.”

The de­ten­tion or­der stip­u­lates that Roberts is to be held at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre in San­ta Rosa, or an­oth­er des­ig­nat­ed lo­ca­tion.