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.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty an­nounced on Wednes­day that it had re­voked the PDOs af­ter what it de­scribed as “a com­pre­hen­sive re­view of the le­gal, med­ical and pub­lic in­ter­est is­sues” sur­round­ing the case, in­clud­ing rec­om­men­da­tions from the Con­sti­tu­tion­al Re­view Tri­bunal and on­go­ing as­sess­ments un­der the 2026 Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions.

De­spite lift­ing the de­ten­tion or­ders, the Min­istry stressed that the crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the al­leged plot to as­sas­si­nate Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and oth­er se­nior Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials re­mains ac­tive. It said the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice, to­geth­er with lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al law en­force­ment agen­cies, con­tin­ues to in­ves­ti­gate the mat­ter, while mea­sures re­main in place to pro­tect pub­lic safe­ty.