𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗛𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗦𝗔𝗚𝗔 | 𝗥𝗢𝗚𝗘𝗥 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗫𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥 | 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗘𝗫𝗘𝗖𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗣𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥
Grace Notes in Context THE FREE HADEED SAGA ROGER ALEXANDER The Face of Executive Power Suddenly life has new meaning to me. It is only a line from a song, yet today it arrives wearing the weight of freedom. Across Trinidad and Tobago, and now across Reuters and international news headlines, the story reads that Minister of Homeland Security Roger Alexander revoked the Preventive Detention Orders that kept Dominic and Genevieve Hadeed behind bars. Allow me to strip my own dismay. Why did it require nearly a month of detention, tribunal review, constitutional litigation, appellate intervention, Privy Council proceedings, medical concerns and international attention before the minister concluded that continued detention was no longer proportionate? ...
