Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has re­voked the Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) is­sued against busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife, Genevieve Hadeed, say­ing their con­tin­ued de­ten­tion was no longer pro­por­tion­ate while the crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion con­tin­ues.

In a me­dia re­lease is­sued to­day, Alexan­der said he re­voked the or­ders af­ter re­view­ing the le­gal, med­ical and con­sti­tu­tion­al is­sues sur­round­ing the cou­ple’s de­ten­tion.

The Hadeeds were ar­rest­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice on June 24 as part of an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an al­leged plot to as­sas­si­nate Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and se­nior mem­bers of her Gov­ern­ment. Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders were is­sued against them on June 27 un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions 2026 dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency.