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Senior Reporter
A preventive detention order (PDO) has been issued for Neisha/Nisha Ramkissoon, who has been described as the “love interest” of Resistance Gang leader Robert “R Man” Paul.
Although the legal notice, signed by Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander under the current State of Emergency powers, was dated July 30, it was only listed in the Gazette yesterday.
It also remained unclear up to last evening if Ramkissoon, who was alleged to be connected to the kidnapping for ransom of Anisha Hosein-Singh in May 2024, had yet been detained by law enforcement agents.
According to the gazetted notice, Ramkissoon, also called “Hoggie,” was identified as Paul’s romantic love interest, “who has operational control and leadership of an organised criminal group” also referred to as the Resistance Gang.
The notice claimed, “She has been identified as a trusted member of the gang who is planning, directing, procuring and supervising gang activity for the gang, wherein 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, prison service and the judiciary.”
It added that Ramkissoon “has been implicated in the kidnapping of a doubles vendor’s daughter for ransom, the killing of a coconut vendor on more than one occasion and the extortion of several businesses in her area.”
“She has been receiving instructions from the incarcerated gang leader to plan and execute criminal enterprises, specifically, to kidnap members of the business community to fund the gang leader’s bail application. She was recently a participant in a communication with others who are planning a coalition of forces to imminently kill public officials, namely police officers, prison officers and members of the Judiciary,” the gazetted notice said.
The notice also stated she had armed young members of the gang with weapons and they were now awaiting the instructions of Paul to begin carrying out elements of the plan to execute persons in public with high-powered rifles.
“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,” the notice said.
The PDO for Ramkissoon’s detention comes days after a senior Resistance Gang member appeared in court charged in connection with a reported plot to kill two defence attorneys.
Along with Ramkissoon’s PDO, four other PDOs were gazetted yesterday. The others were for Brian “Caveman” Thomas; Anthony “Fatman” Charles; Hosca/Hosea “Pa” Hernandez; and Rivaldo, also called “Valdo.”
The PDOs for Charles and Thomas were dated July 30; while those for Hernandez and Rivaldo were dated August 6.
Thomas’ PDO indicated he had been identified as a member of an organised criminal group referred to as the Railway Road Baddness Gang.
“He has been identified as a key gang operative who is involved in sophisticated gang activity, including but not limited to the shipment and sale of narcotics, the laundering of the proceeds of crime, the acquisition and storage of high-powered firearms, the violent expansion of gang territory, intimidation through the use of firearms, attempted murder and violence to maintain gang control.”
Charles’ notice identified him as a “known gunman and member of a gang within the meaning of the Anti-Gang Act” who “poses an immediate threat to public safety.”
The PDO alleged, “This threat is established by information and intelligence, including sworn statements from persons who can identify the detainee as a gang member.”
It named other persons, some of whom had PDOs issued against them previously, who were conspiring with Charles to murder Candice Mahadeo.
Hernandez was identified as a senior member of the Railway Road Baddness Gang and was listed as a “gang lieutenant and firearms handler.”
According to his PDO, “He is believed to be working with the OCG’s founders as a second-in-command, responsible for receiving and storing high-powered rifles, AR-15s, and handguns, which are then circulated to gang members for use in enforcement, intimidation, and retaliation. He also manages the movement of firearms across gang territories.”
Rivaldo, of Mc Bean, Couva, was also identified as a member of the Railway Road Baddness Gang.
His PDO alleged, “His continued presence ensures the gang retains the capacity to carry out violent enforcement and imminent targeted killings on behalf of the leadership of the OCG.”
While there were reports that a situation had developed at Teteron Barracks, Chaguaramas, where Paul was being kept, a senior police official yesterday denied this was in fact the case.
The official told Guardian Media that there was “no situation” up to 3 pm.
He assured, “Everything remains normal. The situation with the inmates remains as is.”
Guardian Media was informed by attorneys who visited the Chaguaramas military base yesterday that they had been denied access to their clients after they were informed that a situation had developed.
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