One week af­ter two Trinida­di­an men were killed in a US mil­i­tary airstrike off the coast of Venezuela, res­i­dents and fish­er­folk in Ica­cos say that while there is some un­ease, dai­ly life has large­ly re­turned to nor­mal as they con­tin­ue to ven­ture out to sea.

Last Tues­day, Chad “Char­po” Joseph and Rishi Sama­roo were killed in what US of­fi­cials de­scribed as a “lethal ki­net­ic strike”. US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump lat­er con­firmed the at­tack on so­cial me­dia, claim­ing in­tel­li­gence in­di­cat­ed the ves­sel was car­ry­ing il­le­gal nar­cotics linked to “nar­coter­ror­ist net­works”.

Joseph’s rel­a­tives, how­ev­er, strong­ly de­nied the al­le­ga­tions, call­ing the in­ci­dent “an act of wicked­ness”.