Jensen La Vende

The on go­ing saga be­tween rel­a­tives of Dil­lon and Du­ane Skeete and the T&T Reg­i­ment con­tin­ues.This time the rel­a­tives are claim­ing that the lo­cal law en­force­ment agency or agen­cies are col­lud­ing with their coun­ter­parts in Grena­da to con­tin­ue their vic­tim­i­sa­tion.Rel­a­tives of the men, both lo­cal­ly and re­gion­al­ly, told the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day while sol­diers were on the man­hunt for one broth­er they have or­dered the ar­rest of the oth­er.

In a tele­phone in­ter­view yes­ter­day Sel­ma Skeete, aunt of the two broth­ers, said Du­ane was ar­rest­ed some time af­ter 10 am on Wednes­day and is be­ing held on the be­hest of lo­cal au­thor­i­ties.The woman said her nephew "has been a good boy" since ar­riv­ing in the coun­try on Ju­ly 3 and have been stay­ing at their St George Parish home.She added that the 29-year-old has on­ly ven­tured out­side to play foot­ball, go to the pa­n­yard and the lo­cal gro­cery. It was at a gro­cery, Food Fair, that he was held.The rel­a­tives in Grena­da said the po­lice there ar­rest­ed Skeete for en­quiries for a mat­ter in Trinidad but did not dis­close what it was.

She said af­ter ar­rest­ing him they re­turned to where he was stay­ing and col­lect­ed his per­son­al be­long­ings, in­clud­ing his clothes. He is be­ing held, they said, in the St George Parish Po­lice Sta­tion and have been in­ter­viewed but not yet charged for any thing.How­ev­er, when con­tact­ed yes­ter­day Deputy Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er in charge of Crime Glen Hack­ette said he was un­aware of any op­er­a­tions on go­ing where the Po­lice Ser­vice had sought the as­sis­tance of the Grena­da po­lice.He said he would fur­ther look in­to the mat­ter to­day with the In­ter­pol Unit, adding that any­thing of that na­ture must pass through him.

Rel­a­tives be­lieve Du­ane is be­ing held be­cause sol­diers in Trinidad are hunt­ing down his broth­er who goes by the alias "Bandy".The hunt, they said, stemmed from the mur­der of Lance Cor­po­ral Kay­o­de Thomas on June 29 at Bev­er­ly Hills, Laven­tille, while Thomas was on his way to vis­it his moth­er.Thomas and the Skeetes are third cousins. The rel­a­tives said the hunt was be­ing led by a reg­i­ment of­fi­cer who went by the name "Rob­bie".When called yes­ter­day "Rob­bie" de­nied he was hunt­ing any of the men and called on those who sus­pect him of lead­ing a band of rogue sol­diers to re­port the mat­ter to the reg­i­ment.Since the death of Thomas sol­diers have been pa­trolling alone in the Laven­tille com­mu­ni­ty.Rel­a­tives of the Skeetes say they have been tar­get­ed by the sol­diers who searched homes in To­co, Cou­va, Laven­tille and Champ Fleurs.