A High Court judge has approved an order for the state to grant immediate virtual access to inmate Earl Richards and physical access within 72 hours. Richards, a remanded prisoner who was moved from the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca under emergency powers, filed for judicial review. His attorneys argue the transfer breached his constitutional…
Joshua Seemungal Senior Reporter joshua.seemungal@guardian..co.tt Although the State of Emergency (SoE) ended last weekend, the wives of inmates Rajaee Ali and Earl Richards say their loved ones continue to be denied basic rights at Teteron Barracks, Chaguaramas. According to Stacy Griffith and Tricia James, their husbands are being exposed to dehumanising conditions, even being denied…
Otto Carrington Senior Reporter otto.carrington@guardian.co.tt Trinidad and Tobago nationals who left the country to fight for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are reportedly attempting to return home amid escalating violence in war-torn Syria and Iraq, raising urgent legal, security and humanitarian concerns, according to attorney CJ Williams and relatives of those detained….
IT’S the truth. Defence attorney Criston J Williams said yesterday that Defence Minister Wayne Sturge’s statement in Parliament last Friday that police had prior knowledge of a threat on the life of State prosecutor Dana Seetahal was no lie. According to Sturge, police had received intelligence of an intended hit on Seetahal before the attack…
The legal team representing Rajaee Ali and Earl Richards has called on Minister of Homeland Security Roger Alexander to review the continued detention of the two men under preventive detention orders (PDOs), arguing that statutory oversight requirements had not been met. The letter to Alexander was also addressed to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Minister of…
