Re­lief and cel­e­bra­tion swept through Blue Wa­ters Prod­ucts Lim­it­ed yes­ter­day, af­ter em­ploy­ees learned ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Do­minic Hadeed had been freed from prison.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing the State will now have to con­sid­er the fu­ture of their ap­peal over a de­ci­sion by three Court of Ap­peal mem­bers to or­der that busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve be placed un­der house ar­rest, af­ter Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) against them were lift­ed by Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der yes­ter­day.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young and for­mer Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith are call­ing for the im­me­di­ate re­moval of Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der, fol­low­ing the re­lease of busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife af­ter 30 days in cus­tody un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders with­out charge.

"Re­sign now Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter, Roger Alexan­der! And take At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie, De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge and Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar with you one time."

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gen­er­al sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings says the par­ty is pre­pared to de­fend it­self against an on­go­ing po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the fund­ing and con­struc­tion of its mul­ti­mil­lion-dol­lar Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters in Port-of-Spain, but in­sists Gov­ern­ment’s re­al mo­tive is to per­se­cute and em­bar­rass the par­ty.

A jour­ney home turned dead­ly for 29 Venezue­lan mi­grants, in­clud­ing six chil­dren, af­ter the pirogue car­ry­ing them cap­sized off the south-west­ern coast in Erin on Wednes­day, leav­ing five-year-old Brithanny Pala­cios and an adult male dead.

Over­whelmed by an out­pour­ing of sup­port from Good Samar­i­tans and as­sur­ances from the T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion that her fam­i­ly could fi­nal­ly have elec­tric­i­ty, An­dri­ana Noor yes­ter­day ex­pressed heart­felt grat­i­tude to every­one who an­swered her call for help.

The Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee is con­sid­er­ing ask­ing In­dia to with­draw its High Com­mis­sion­er to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Dr Pradeep Singh Ra­jpuro­hit, af­ter crit­i­cis­ing the de­ci­sion to sched­ule an Open House for mem­bers of the In­di­an com­mu­ni­ty and di­as­po­ra on Eman­ci­pa­tion Day.

Fif­teen peo­ple have been placed un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026, with the Gov­ern­ment cit­ing al­leged links to or­gan­ised crime, gang ac­tiv­i­ty, firearm of­fences, vi­o­lent crimes and ve­hi­cle theft net­works.

Em­ploy­ees of the Na­tion­al Pro­gramme for the Up­keep of Pub­lic Spaces (NPUPS), who have been wait­ing for their wages, have been told the ad­min­is­tra­tive is­sue re­spon­si­ble for de­layed pay­ments could be re­solved by the end of this week. But work­ers say the de­lay has been caus­ing them hard­ship.

Just over a year af­ter a five-mem­ber board of di­rec­tors was ap­point­ed to the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT), the com­pa­ny’s board has been re­duced to three mem­bers fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of di­rec­tor Nadi­ra Prab­hu­di­al.

Pres­i­dent of the As­sem­bly of South­ern Lawyers (ASL), Saira Lakhan, says the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­voke the Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) is­sued against Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed shows the need for con­tin­ued over­sight of emer­gency pow­ers, while cau­tion­ing against pre­judg­ing the out­come of the on­go­ing crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion.