$50 million allocated for covert prison operations

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AKASH SAMAROOJournalist at Guardian

October 22, 2025

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$50 million allocated for covert prison operations

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Lead Editor – Politics

The Ministry of Homeland Security has been allocated $50 million to fund “covert operations” within the nation’s prisons.

During examination of the Ministry’s recurrent expenditure during yesterday's Standing Finance Committee (SFC), Port-of-Spain South MP Keith Scotland questioned what the money was for considering the vague heading it was under.

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