Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Pres­i­dent Dr Kishore Shal­low has led trib­utes to Sir Garfield Sobers, de­scrib­ing the Bar­ba­di­an leg­end as the great­est crick­eter the world has ever seen and a sym­bol of Caribbean ex­cel­lence whose lega­cy will en­dure for gen­er­a­tions.

Fam­i­ly con­firmed the Na­tion­al Hero died peace­ful­ly at his home in High­gate Gar­dens, St Michael, Bar­ba­dos this morn­ing.

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.

Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve’s hopes for free­dom were dashed yes­ter­day, af­ter the State se­cured a late-night Ap­peal Court rul­ing which or­dered a stay of an ear­li­er judg­ment which had or­dered that they be re­leased from jail and be placed un­der house ar­rest.

Af­ter spend­ing al­most three weeks in prison while be­ing probed over an al­leged plot to as­sas­si­nate Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve have been or­dered re­leased from prison and placed un­der house ar­rest.

For­mer Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ters Mar­vin Gon­za­les and Gary Grif­fith say con­cerns over the ve­rac­i­ty of in­for­ma­tion that formed the ba­sis for the de­ten­tion of busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve for the past 22 days per­sist, even as the cou­ple re­mained in cus­tody af­ter the State got a late-night stay on an ear­li­er rul­ing or­der­ing their re­lease from in­car­cer­a­tion to house ar­rest by the Ap­peal Court. 

Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Is­rael Khan, SC, says the de­ci­sion to re­lease Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed from prison and place them un­der house ar­rest has on­ly un­der­scored the so­cio-eco­nom­ic in­equal­i­ties that ex­ist in this coun­try.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) says it is prepar­ing for a le­gal bat­tle af­ter con­firm­ing it has been served with court doc­u­ments re­lat­ing to the fi­nanc­ing of the ren­o­va­tion and con­struc­tion of its Tran­quil­i­ty Street, Port-of-Spain head­quar­ters, Bal­isi­er House.

Ten more peo­ple have been de­tained un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026, with the de­ten­tion or­ders al­leg­ing links to or­gan­ised crime groups and in­volve­ment in vi­o­lent crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty, in­clud­ing rob­beries, shoot­ings and oth­er of­fences.

The Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate could emerge as the pre­ferred lo­ca­tion for at least one of the US-backed da­ta cen­tre projects pro­posed for Trinidad and To­ba­go, with con­struc­tion po­ten­tial­ly be­gin­ning with­in months once ne­go­ti­a­tions are com­plet­ed.

Act­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez has thanked Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for Trinidad & To­ba­go’s as­sis­tance to earth­quake-rav­aged Venezuela, say­ing the dis­as­ter has reaf­firmed that “the path be­tween na­tions is sol­i­dar­i­ty.”

What be­gan as a ship­ment of food, med­i­cine and re­lief sup­plies to earth­quake-rav­aged Venezuela may have opened the door to re­pair­ing one of the re­gion’s most strained diplo­mat­ic re­la­tion­ships.