the coast of Venezuela earlier this week, to come forward and assist in the investigations. At the same time, Homeland Security Minister, Roger Alexander, a former senior police officer, is casting doubt on the “innocence” of the two men, Richie Samaroo and Chad 'Charpo' Joseph. “All I can say is that what the Homeland Ministry is treating with is really newspaper reports, because we would want to get as much information as we can to assist in any way that we can in terms of identifying persons and all of that,” Alexander told I.955FM radio on Friday. “But there are some strange activities that seem to be taking place, because you know, normally when persons travel, the amount of souls on a plane, they are able to be identified, if something is to happen and in terms of a ship, the manifest and all of that and the boats registered to leave from one port to another,” he said, noting that has not been the case in this particular situation. “So all we have is family making statements, strange and unusual statements, I must say because I heard the media interviewing the grandmother and she said that the men are all good…

“Normal thing, we understand that. That is the role and function of a mother, her son ought to be the best ever and that he was making runs (between Venezuela and Trinidad), but the media never asked what type of runs he was making, was it on the cricket field…I was confused myself, but as I said before nothing has come to the Ministry of Homeland Security in terms of something happening,” Alexander said. He told his hosts that several years ago, there was an individual who was reported to have been involved “in a situation” in the country, only for investigations to later prove he was in Brazil. (Jamaica Gleaner)