A prisoner who is currently serving a sentence for Murder is due to appear in court today, after he was charged with Making a Video Recording Inside the Prison Walls Without the Written Authority of the Commissioner of Prisons.
Dwayne Romany was charged on September 18th 2024, in accordance with the Prisons Act, Chapter 13:01,of the Miscellaneous Provision (Law Enforcement) Act 25 of 2019, as a result of an ongoing multiagency collaboration initiative between the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service and the Trinidad and Tobago Prison Service.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Intelligence and Investigation, Suzette Martin, spearheaded the investigation, which involved a joint exercise conducted by Special Investigations Unit investigators and officers from the Prison Service.
Investigations revealed that sometime between August 25th and September 10th, 2024, an inmate of the Port-of-Spain Prison, allegedly recorded a video in which he threatened the lives of prison officers and their families. In the video, he also demanded that the Commissioner of Prisons make changes within the prison or there would be “war.”