Eight Detention Orders have been issued for the immediate arrest of alleged criminal elements throughout this country, following intelligence that some of the individuals were planning a daring daylight attempt on the life of a Barataria woman following a land dispute.

Others, it was alleged, had access to high-powered firearms and planned reprisal killings throughout the country.

On Wednesday evening, Minister of Homeland Security Roger Alexander confirmed to the Express that he was in the process of signing 'several detention orders' which would go into effect by the end of the night.