Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has de­fend­ed the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s de­ten­tion of Blue Wa­ters own­er Do­minic Hadeed, his wife Genevieve Hadeed and her aunt Star Sab­ga, say­ing in­tel­li­gence and not po­lit­i­cal mo­tive led to the is­suance of Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders for the trio.

“This is not a po­lit­i­cal thing. It’s not a po­lit­i­cal thing. I don’t know why peo­ple think it, and I am some­what em­bar­rassed by that. Why per­sons would think such a thing,” Alexan­der said yes­ter­day.

“Let me say again one more time, no Gov­ern­ment min­is­ter (can) in­struct any­one to take out a PDO for any­body. It doesn’t work like that, and if that’s your in­for­ma­tion, you were high­ly mis­led.”