Woman detained for telling Venezuela to attack PM’s private home

Jensen La Vende

A de­ten­tion or­der has been is­sued for a woman who post­ed an im­age of the Prime Min­is­ter’s Philip­pine home on so­cial me­dia, call­ing on Venezuela to tar­get it.

The or­der, which was made on No­vem­ber 12 and gazetted yes­ter­day, said that Olive Green-Jack should be held for her so­cial me­dia post.

The or­der stat­ed that Green-Jack “made and pub­lished pub­lic posts and/or com­ments on so­cial me­dia ad­dressed to the Venezue­lan Gov­ern­ment in an at­tempt to in­flu­ence pub­lic opin­ion in a man­ner like­ly to be prej­u­di­cial to pub­lic safe­ty.”

It added that the posts and com­ments in­vit­ed vi­o­lence on the Prime Min­is­ter, the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go and mem­bers of the pub­lic by Venezuela and/or ex­ter­nal per­sons, which re­vealed “an im­mi­nent threat to pub­lic safe­ty.”

Green-Jack, of Sar­gan­gar Trace, Morne Co­co Road, Diego Mar­tin, will be held at the Women’s Prison as part of the de­ten­tion or­der.

Hers was one of four de­ten­tion or­ders signed by Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der. The oth­ers in­clud­ed: Vish­nu “Rishi” Kalpoo of Iros Road, Chatham, and Ibis Street, Fan­ny Vil­lage, Point Fortin; Tyreek Romeo of 19th Street, Beetham Gar­dens; and Gerome Awai, al­so called Jerome “Bush” Awai, of Church Street, Pe­tit Val­ley for be­ing mem­bers of Or­gan­ised Crime Group (OCG).

The de­ten­tion or­der against Kalpoo said he thought to be a sup­pli­er of large-scale traf­fick­ing of il­le­gal nar­cotics, firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, con­tra­band or un­cus­tomed goods, hu­man traf­fick­ing and fu­el.

Romeo is said to af­fil­i­at­ed to the 7 Gang.

“The de­tainee and oth­er mem­bers of the group are ac­tive­ly plan­ning and prepar­ing to as­sist in the ex­e­cu­tion of vi­o­lent reprisal at­tacks util­is­ing high-pow­ered firearms in pub­lic spaces that would cre­ate a sub­stan­tial risk of harm to by­standers and civil­ians,” the or­der said.

Awai was iden­ti­fied as the leader of the “Val­ley Mon­sters,” which is con­nect­ed to oth­er larg­er gangs such as the “Rich­plain Gang” and the “9 Gang,” with a cache of high-pow­ered firearms, and is said to be re­spon­si­ble for mur­ders, armed rob­beries, and nar­cotics and firearms traf­fick­ing.