ALMOST a month after businessman Dominic Hadeed and his wife, Genevieve Hadeed, were released from detention under the state of emergency regulations, legal notices revoking the orders made against them were published in the Gazette.Legal Notices 650 and 651, published on August 20, stated that Minister of Homeland Security Roger Alexander revoked the detention orders against the couple on July 23, 2026.The notices were issued under paragraph 9 of the Schedule to the Emergency Powers Regulations, 2026, which allowed the minister to revoke a detention order at any time.Dominic Hadeed, of Golden Grove Road, Piarco, and Pine Avenue, Bayshore, Westmoorings, had been detained under a preventive detention order dated June 27. The order directed that he be held at the Remand Prison, Golden Grove, Arouca, or at another location designated by the minister.Genevieve Hadeed, also referred to in the legal notice as Genevierve Hadeed, of Orange Grove Estate, Trincity, and Western Circle, Westmoorings, had also been detained under a preventive detention order dated June 27. Her order directed that she be held at the Women’s Prison at Golden Grove, Arouca, or at another location designated by the minister.The publication of the revocation orders formally recorded the cancellation of the detention orders that had been made against the couple during the state of emergency.The revocation orders were signed by Alexander on July 23, the same day the couple was released from detention.The Hadeeds were arrested on June 24 after police executed search warrants at their Westmoorings home and other locations as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and other senior Government officials.They were detained without charge and, on June 27, Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander signed preventive detention orders against both.The couple denied the allegations and challenged the legality of their detention through habeas corpus proceedings and an application for judicial review. The High Court granted permission for the judicial review, but subsequently refused their applications for habeas corpus and interim release.The Hadeeds appealed and, on July 16, the Court of Appeal overturned the High Court’s refusal of interim relief and ordered that they be released from prison and placed under house arrest while their substantive legal challenge continued.The State obtained a stay of that order and sought to take the matter to the Privy Council. The Privy Council later indicated it could not hear the State’s challenge before its annual vacation, and set the matter for October, after which Alexander revoked the Hadeeds’ PDOs on July 23 and they were released.The Privy Council matter is still expected to be called later this year. There have been no announcements, to date, that the matter would be recalled by the State.—Alexander Bruzual