The Ministry of Homeland Security and the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) are treating the alleged kidnapping of a Monos Island couple as a high-priority case.
Speaking to the media outside the Parliament Building on Tuesday, Minister of Homeland Security Roger Alexander said the question which arises is how the government can secure citizens who live on the islands, since the country was left with almost no border patrol assets.
“I also want to ask the public this question: how they are looking at this now when my Prime Minister spoke about the radars, how they are looking at this now when my Prime Minister spoke about what the United States is doing on our seas, well not our sea really but out in the international waters, how are they looking at that? Who knows that person would have come on a boat and all of that, possibly from another place, I don’t want to give out too much information because the police have some information, and abduct persons, citizens of this good land.”
Relatives of Derek Tardieu and his wife Claribel claim the couple were kidnapped from their home on Monos Island off Trinidad’s west coast on Saturday night. A ransom demand has been made for their safe release.