Po­lice ex­e­cut­ed a search war­rant for the elec­tron­ic de­vices of To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly In­fra­struc­ture Sec­re­tary Trevor James, fol­low­ing an ap­pli­ca­tion made by Cpl Makeal Seechan of the In­tel­li­gence and In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit.

The High Court ap­proved the war­rant un­der Sec­tion 5 of the Ad­min­is­tra­tion of Jus­tice (In­dictable Pro­ceed­ings) Act 2011. The war­rant au­tho­rized the of­fi­cer to search James' res­i­dence at Num­ber NHA De­vel­op­ment, Sig­nal Hill, To­ba­go, and any oth­er as­so­ci­at­ed premis­es.

The search was cen­tred on re­triev­ing phones, com­put­ers, and oth­er elec­tron­ic de­vices con­tain­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions, videos, im­ages, and GPS da­ta that could pro­vide ev­i­dence for the charge of Mis­be­hav­ior in Pub­lic Of­fice. Po­lice sus­pect these de­vices hold in­for­ma­tion re­lat­ed to an on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion. Mas­ter Sookraj-Goswa­mi of the High Court au­tho­rized the war­rant on Sep­tem­ber 4, 2024 and it was ex­e­cut­ed last night.

Po­lice are ex­pect­ed to ex­am­ine the de­vices for fur­ther ev­i­dence. The ac­tion fol­lows a sim­i­lar sit­u­a­tion in 2023, when po­lice ex­e­cut­ed search war­rants at the res­i­dence of Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine, Deputy Chief Sec­re­tary Faith B. Is­rael, and an­oth­er for­mer THA of­fi­cial. That in­ves­ti­ga­tion stemmed from a leaked voice record­ing in which two mem­bers of the THA Ex­ec­u­tive Coun­cil were heard al­leged­ly dis­cussing the use of pub­lic funds to ad­vance po­lit­i­cal pro­pa­gan­da.

The cur­rent search is part of a broad­er in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to mis­use of pub­lic of­fice and funds.

In re­sponse to the war­rant, James took to so­cial me­dia say­ing he would not be in­tim­i­dat­ed. He post­ed, just be­fore mid­night, a pic­ture of the war­rant and the cap­tion: "Con­tin­ued ex­ec­u­tive per­se­cu­tion. No fear. No bow­ing. No turn­ing back. Stand firm To­ba­go. Join me live at 5 pm Fri­day (to­day)."