et tu brute?
As you well know, it's standard procedure everywhere.
If there are legitimate grounds, most countries, not least the grate UK or grate Merika, have legal avenues to do this type of thing. And they do it often.
So when supercilious misfits look at a headline back home and act like it's some backward shitehole banana republic crap, it points more towards their own self-hate rather than any other angle.
The legal frameworks for wiretaps and surveillance in Trinidad and Tobago not different from what happens in your grate Blighty. The UK has some of the most intrusive digital surveillance laws going, so next time you want to grasp at straws to denigrate the backward Caribbean, check and see who's looking at you in the mirror.
Also, consider which UK agency is capturing your keystrokes when you post pon here.