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Families wait for loved ones

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Gyasi GonzalesJournalist at Express

September 11, 2026

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A number of detainees held under Preventive Detention Orders (PDOs) were released yesterday with the process, which started during the morning and extended into last night, being described by relatives of people detained as slow and tedious.

Prison officials were working to have the majority of them freed by 7 p.m. yesterday.

A vehicle is stopped by police officers before entering the Eastern Correctional Rehabilitation Centre (ECRC) in Santa Rosa, Arima yesterday. Photo: CURTIS CHASE

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