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Ke­jan Haynes

One year af­ter Able Sea­man Kieron Si­mon went miss­ing at sea, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard (TTCG) for­mal­ly ho­n­oured his life and ser­vice.

Si­mon dis­ap­peared dur­ing a joint op­er­a­tion to in­ter­cept a se­mi-sub­mersible ves­sel re­port­ed­ly car­ry­ing a large quan­ti­ty of drugs bound for Trinidad and To­ba­go. Of­fi­cers de­tained three Span­ish-speak­ing men dur­ing the ex­er­cise. The ves­sel was lat­er de­lib­er­ate­ly sunk and went down with its car­go. Si­mon is be­lieved to have gone down with it. His body was nev­er re­cov­ered.