Al­though mys­tery con­tin­ues to sur­round the ori­gin of al­leged death threats is­sued to De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge, at least two of his Cab­i­net col­leagues have as­sured that this is not af­fect­ing his abil­i­ty to per­form his du­ties. This, de­spite his non-ap­pear­ance in the last week.

Side­step­ping ques­tions from re­porters as they emerged sep­a­rate­ly fol­low­ing a vis­it to the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates’ Court on St Vin­cent Street yes­ter­day, Jus­tice Min­is­ter De­vesh Ma­haraj and Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der urged the me­dia to get an­swers from Sturge him­self, on when and what threats had been made, the medi­um used to is­sue the threats, what se­cu­ri­ty agency he re­port­ed it to and if in­creased se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures had been put in place for him and his fam­i­ly.

Both men al­so de­clined to con­firm if they had in­creased their per­son­al se­cu­ri­ty, as well as that of close fam­i­ly mem­bers. While Ma­haraj in­di­cat­ed it’s be­ing con­sid­ered, Alexan­der de­clined to ad­dress the is­sue.