Nyasha mentioned in Parliament

As he opened his contribution, Public Utilities Minister Fitzgerald Hinds said this bill, “is being debated and offered for our consideration at a time when a woman police officer is now missing.” Hinds, a former police officer, said Joseph’s disappearance is, “causing consternation and trauma in the national community, in thePolice Service, among women and among those of us as adults who are concerned for young people in TT, of which she is one.” He added, “This bill is presented for our consideration at a time, when unfortunately we have registered over 100 murders in TT.” Later in the sitting, Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal asked National Security Minister Edmund Dillon, across the Parliament floor, whether reports that Joseph’s body were found were true. Responding to what Dillon told him at that time, Moonilal replied, “It is not confirmed? We wait on the Minister of National Security.

During this presentation, his opinion might change.” Moonilal recalled recently having to attend the funeral of three persons murdered in his constituency and said there are no comforting words that politicians could give to grieving families in those circumstances.