Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has sought to clar­i­fy com­ments that ap­peared to sug­gest he would sup­port a cur­few, af­ter a triple shoot­ing in Bel­mont left two men and a tod­dler dead and re­newed pub­lic con­cern over vi­o­lent crime.

An­tho­ny “Mon­ster” Wil­son, 28, and Aquil “Fats” Kafi, 30, were shot dead along Up­per St Fran­cois Val­ley Road around 8.35am on Thurs­day.

Kafi’s 23-month-old son, Aki­ni, lat­er died from his in­juries at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, while the child’s moth­er, An­to­nia Cain-Kafi, 36, re­mained in crit­i­cal con­di­tion up to last night.