A pris­on­er serv­ing a mur­der sen­tence is set to ap­pear in court to­day af­ter be­ing charged with “Mak­ing a Video Record­ing In­side the Prison Walls With­out the Writ­ten Au­thor­i­ty of the Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons.”

The pris­on­er, Dwayne Ro­many, was charged on Sep­tem­ber 18, 2024, un­der the Pris­ons Act, thanks to a col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice and the Prison Ser­vice.

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Suzette Mar­tin led the in­ves­ti­ga­tion, which in­volved the Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit and prison of­fi­cers. They dis­cov­ered that be­tween Au­gust 25 and Sep­tem­ber 10, 2024, an in­mate at the Port-of-Spain Prison al­leged­ly record­ed a video threat­en­ing the lives of prison of­fi­cers and their fam­i­lies. In the video, he de­mand­ed changes with­in the prison or warned of “war.”

DCP Mar­tin em­pha­sized that the TTPS takes threats against cit­i­zens, es­pe­cial­ly those aimed at pro­tec­tive ser­vices, very se­ri­ous­ly. She ad­vised crim­i­nals to re­con­sid­er their ac­tions, stat­ing that in­tim­i­da­tion or vi­o­lence, whether in­side or out­side prison, will not go un­pun­ished.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.