Two days af­ter Able Sea­man Kieron Si­mon dis­ap­peared when a nar­co-sub­ma­rine in Grena­di­an wa­ters sank dur­ing a drug bust, lo­cal au­thor­i­ties have as­sured they are do­ing all they can to as­sist in the ef­fort to lo­cate him as ef­forts are be­ing in­ten­si­fied.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds yes­ter­day said, “The TTCG has gone in­to high gear, as the search and res­cue op­er­a­tion has been in­ten­si­fied.”

He added, “Its per­son­nel are in col­lec­tive pain and com­mis­er­a­tions for him and his fam­i­ly. Af­ter all, he is re­put­ed to very pro­fes­sion­al and per­son­able mem­ber, he met this sit­u­a­tion in the ex­e­cu­tion of his du­ty to pro­tect the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.”