With 28 murders in just the first 14 days of the year, Trinidad and Tobago’s National Security Minister Edmund Dillon said yesterday that the various national security agencies are “not comfortable.”

However, he assured that perpetrators will be brought to justice because there is an all out war against crime and criminal elements.

Dillon fielded questions from the media about the killing spree that has been taking place in the first month of the New Year following a press briefing at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) yesterday.

According to the Trinidad Guardian, the minister stated law enforcement has been beefed up and over the weekend there was not only an increased presence of police and soldiers on the roads but police officers were “in different focus operations” in an effort to catch criminals.

“We will not give up, we will continue,” he said.

Dillon said police had given him an update on investigations into the murders of 15-year-old Morvant Laventille Secondary student Joshua Andrews and “PH” driver Devon Fernandez. He said there had been some arrests and investigations are continuing.

The teen was travelling home from school in a car driven by Fernandez last when he was fatally shot. The gunman fired repeatedly at the occupants of the vehicle and one of the bullets caused it to explode. The bodies of the two victims were burnt. Andrews will be buried today.

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