Young calls for Alexander’s resignation after triple murder

JESSE RAMDEO

Se­nior Re­porter

Op­po­si­tion Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Port of Spain North/St Ann’s West, Stu­art Young, is call­ing for the im­me­di­ate res­ig­na­tions of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der and De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge fol­low­ing a triple killing in Bel­mont this morn­ing that claimed the life of a two-year-old child.

Speak­ing with CNC3 News, Young said the lat­est killings are ev­i­dence of what he de­scribed as the Gov­ern­ment’s fail­ure to ad­dress crime and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

“I am hor­ri­fied this morn­ing to be in­formed that there was an­oth­er mass mur­der in Trinidad and To­ba­go in the con­stituen­cy of Bel­mont and en­vi­rons and to hear the hor­ri­fy­ing news that a two-year-old child is one of the fa­tal­i­ties this morn­ing,” Young said.

He fur­ther lament­ed what he said was gov­ern­ment's fail­ure to ar­rest crime.

"They have had us in states of emer­gency for the ma­jor­i­ty of their tenure in of­fice. We are now in the third it­er­a­tion of a UNC State of Emer­gency, and the mass mur­ders con­tin­ue un­abat­ed.”

Young added, “They have ab­solute­ly no plan and the cit­i­zens are suf­fer­ing. A two-year-old child, my sym­pa­thy and con­do­lences go out to the fam­i­ly and friends and to my con­stituents who are all no doubt in a state of shock and hor­ri­fied at this news this morn­ing.”

The MP al­so drew com­par­isons to an­oth­er re­cent killing in­volv­ing a child in Mor­vant.

“I call for the im­me­di­ate res­ig­na­tions of the min­is­ters of de­fence and home­land se­cu­ri­ty and I wait with bat­ed breath for the re­sponse by law en­force­ment to this tragedy of a two-year-old when we had an­oth­er killing not too far away in Mor­vant of an eight-year-old girl,” he said.

Po­lice are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing this morn­ing’s killings.