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Senior Reporter
Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander signed detention and preventative detention orders under the State of Emergency for 19 people between July 31 and August 15, including a second girlfriend of a gang leader currently in custody of the Defence Force at Chaguaramas. The orders were only gazetted on Tuesday night.
According to Detention Order 294, Eesha “Queen B” Joseph was identified by law enforcement as the second in command of the Resistance Gang and listed as the love interest of Robert “R-Man” Paul, who is detained at Staubles Bay.
Earlier this month, a detention order was issued for Neisha “Hoggie” Ramkissoon, who was also listed as a love interest of Paul.
Joseph, the latest order said, has operational control and leadership of the Resistance Gang and was identified as a trusted member of the gang who is “planning, directing, procuring and supervising gang activity.”
“She has recruited and armed gang members with firearms and provided instructions from the gang leader to engage in acts of kidnapping against the business community and to kill state officials, including members of the TTPS, Prisons Service and the Judiciary. She has recently arranged high-level meetings between gang leaders of several organised crime groups (OCGs),” the order stated.
“She has also distributed weapons and offered financial incentives to gang members to ensure these activities take place, as well as providing logistical support. A Preventative Detention Order, pursuant to regulation 14 of the Emergency Powers Regulations, 2025, is needed, as information indicates that she has and intends to act in a manner prejudicial to public safety,” the order said.
It added: “She recently attempted to get narcotics and communication devices into the Teteron Barracks, where the gang leader is being held. Her detention has therefore been deemed critical to disrupting these planned acts of violence.”
Although he is currently detained at Staubles Bay, Alexander also signed a detention order allowing Paul to be detained to prevent him from acting in a manner prejudicial to public safety.
“Despite being in prison since 2020, he has been found to be communicating with and directing his gang members to engage in criminal activities, including, but not limited to, murder, kidnapping for ransom, and other violent offences, which make him an immediate and serious threat to public safety.”
A detention order was also issued for former murder accused Matthew “Half a Man” Best, who is a member of the Gonzales Faction of the Rasta City 7 Gang.
“He has been identified as working closely with the said person known to the police to commit several homicides and public assassinations,” the detention order stated.
Best is to be detained at the Eastern Correctional Rehabilitation Centre in Santa Rosa when held.
An order was also issued for murder accused Darren Bissoon, also known as “Darryl Bissoon” and “Pipey,” who is currently detained by the Defence Force along with others who were once at the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca. Bissoon was identified as a leader of the Gorilla Strike Force Gang.
“Reliable information reveals that the gang has access to a cache of high-powered rifles, other weapons and ammunition. Despite his incarceration, he has been credibly identified as being able to communicate orders to his gang and planning with other criminal gangs to carry out imminent targeted killings of law enforcement officers and other public officials in public spaces with the use of high-powered rifles,” the order said.
“It is therefore necessary to provide for the preventative detention of the detainee, notwithstanding his incarceration, as he has demonstrated the ability to continue to communicate with and act as the leader of a gang and to procure the commission of gang-related activities from within the nation’s prison.”
A detention order was also issued for Damien Tommy Ramiah, who is also called Damien Charles. Ramiah, the order stated, is a gang leader engaged in acts of criminal enterprise, namely demanding by menaces, making threats and assault.
“He has engaged in the systematic extortion of small businesses and persons and has used the threat of fear to intimidate persons since his release from prison in March, 2024. He remains an active threat to public safety and his preventative detention is required to ensure the safety of the public.”
Damien Ramiah, along with his brothers Bobby Ramiah and Seenath “Farmer” Ramiah, were among eight men freed of the murder of Thakoor Boodram, the brother of deceased drug kingpin Nankissoon “Dole Chadee” Boodram, last year.
Thakoor, a pig farmer, was kidnapped from his home in south Trinidad on December 20, 1997. A ransom was later demanded by his abductors, but ten days later, his head was found in a whiskey box at the Caroni Cremation Site.
The other five accused in that case, Michael “Rat” Maharaj, Samuel Maharaj, Daniel Gopaul, Richard Huggins and Mark Jaikeran, were also freed.
List of those ordered detained
1. MATTHEW BEST – also called “HALF A MAN”
2. MARK WILLIAMS – also called “MARKY BOY”
3. JASON PAUL – also called “BUCK”, “BUCKMAN” and “BMAN”
4. ISIAH LAWRENCE- also called “ISAIAH” and “JOSIAH PHILLIP”
5. BRANDON SINGH – also called “BINGI” and “REDDO”
6. BRENT JULIEN
7. JAHEEM EDWARDS
8. KESTON MODESTE – also called “GLADY”
9. MICHAEL JESSOP – also called “JUNIOR”
10. EESHA JOSEPH – also called “QUEEN B” and “BOSS LADY”
11. JAHEIM CHARLES – also called “BRAD”
12. KELUN ALEXANDER – also called “BABA”
13. KERON ANTHONY WOODS – also called “SHABBA”
14. ROBERT RICKY PAUL – also called “R-MAN” and “PIO”
15. TYREEKE WILLIAMSON – also called “RUSSIAN” and “REDDO”
16. DAMIEN TOMMY RAMIAH – also called DAMIEN CHARLES
17. DARREN KESTON BISSOON – also called “DARRYL BISSOON”
18. HAKEEM HERCULES – also called “KILLY”
19. OMARION MELVILLE
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