The de­com­pos­ing body of a man was found at the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, Land, Fish­eries Sur­veys and Map­ping Di­vi­sion Build­ing at Wright­son Road in Port-of-Spain on Mon­day.

Po­lice said the dis­cov­ery was made by of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Po­lice Sta­tion around 6.30 am on No­vem­ber 17, af­ter an anony­mous caller re­port­ed a foul stench was em­a­nat­ing from the old of­fice which was sup­pos­ed­ly locked.

Re­spond­ing of­fi­cers were grant­ed ac­cess by the MTS of­fi­cer on du­ty and dis­cov­ered the de­com­pos­ing corpse of an African male.

The uniden­ti­fied man who was bare-backed with a ras­ta hair style, was clad in brown long pants alone.

There were no vis­i­ble signs of vi­o­lence about the body.

Po­lice sus­pect he was home­less and had been stay­ing in the build­ing for some time now, but the pub­lic’s help is still be­ing sought to iden­ti­fy him.