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.

For­mer Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith is call­ing for the im­me­di­ate re­moval of the Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty fol­low­ing the re­lease of in­di­vid­u­als who were de­tained for weeks un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is call­ing for an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the Gov­ern­ment’s use of Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) dur­ing the 2026 State of Emer­gency, fol­low­ing the re­vo­ca­tion of the de­ten­tion or­ders against Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has re­voked the Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) is­sued against busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife, Genevieve Hadeed, say­ing their con­tin­ued de­ten­tion was no longer pro­por­tion­ate while the crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion con­tin­ues.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar has ex­pressed grat­i­tude to the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of St Vin­cent and the Grenadines fol­low­ing the res­cue of five Trinidad and To­ba­go fish­er­men af­ter the sink­ing of the fish­ing ves­sel ST VIN­CENT VII.

Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve have suf­fered an­oth­er dis­ap­point­ment in their bid to se­cure their in­ter­im re­lease from de­ten­tion over an al­leged plot to kill Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

A man has been grant­ed bail with sure­ty af­ter he was charged for steal­ing a car that was in­volved in an ac­ci­dent which end­ed with the death of 16-year-old Adin Bap­tiste.

An out­pour­ing of sup­port has come for An­dri­ana Noor, her hus­band Joseph Mulchans­ingh and their three chil­dren af­ter Guardian Me­dia high­light­ed the fam­i­ly’s strug­gle to raise their chil­dren with­out elec­tric­i­ty and their el­dest daugh­ter’s suc­cess in earn­ing a place at a pres­ti­gious first-choice sec­ondary school.