Two Diego Mar­tin men were re­leased af­ter spend­ing three days in cus­tody as in­quiries in­to the mur­der of Arkim Quashie con­tin­ue.

Quashie, 33, was gunned down as he got in­to a blue Hyundai Tuc­son, mo­ments af­ter ar­riv­ing in Trinidad from Pana­ma, ear­ly on the morn­ing of April 17.

Quashie, al­so known as ‘Sours’, was a re­put­ed un­der­world fig­ure, how­ev­er rel­a­tives have main­tained his in­no­cence and claimed that po­lice had re­peat­ed­ly threat­ened him.

Po­lice said the two men were ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion II, but re­leased last Tues­day af­ter the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) ad­vised their re­lease, as in­ves­ti­ga­tors were re­quired to con­duct fur­ther in­quiries.

Quashie’s mur­der led to the in­tro­duc­tion of ad­di­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures at the air­port as he was mur­dered near the ar­rival ter­mi­nal.

Re­spond­ing to Guardian Me­dia via What­sApp through his min­istry’s cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions unit, Min­is­ter of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion Eli Za­k­our said he has al­ready met with the man­age­ment team of the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of TT and in­tends to meet with them again to­day to dis­cuss se­cu­ri­ty and “oth­er mat­ters.”

Za­k­our added that the is­sue of se­cu­ri­ty around the air­port was a shared re­spon­si­bil­i­ty, not­ing the im­por­tance of oth­er stake­hold­ers be­ing in­volved in any plans.

“I in­tend to en­gage at the in­ter-min­is­te­r­i­al lev­el with both the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty and the Min­istry of De­fence to con­tin­ue ad­vanc­ing dis­cus­sions on se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures.

“I am ful­ly com­mit­ted to en­sur­ing con­tin­ued vig­i­lance and the main­te­nance of ro­bust se­cu­ri­ty sys­tems at our na­tion’s in­ter­na­tion­al air­ports, for the ben­e­fit of all pas­sen­gers and oth­er stake­hold­ers,” Za­k­our said. (Shane Su­perville)