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De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge says he is not afraid for his life af­ter a man, who was de­tained un­der the State of Emer­gency (SoE) for a death threat to a Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cial, was re­leased ear­li­er this month.

Speak­ing at a me­dia brief­ing at the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress head­quar­ters in Ch­agua­nas, yes­ter­day, Sturge con­firmed he was the Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cial un­der threat. Asked if he was fear­ful for his life, giv­en what tran­spired with the de­ten­tion of in­di­vid­u­als dur­ing the SoE, Sturge said no.