The search for miss­ing Able Sea­man Kieron Si­mon, who dis­ap­peared in wa­ters off the coast of Grena­da on Feb­ru­ary 21 dur­ing a drug bust, con­tin­ues to en­gage lo­cal and re­gion­al au­thor­i­ties.

Asked to pro­vide an up­date dur­ing a me­dia brief­ing at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, Port-of-Spain, act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ju­nior Ben­jamin said, “This is an on­go­ing mat­ter that is en­gag­ing not just the po­lice but na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.”

He said the re­trieval ex­er­cise was pro­gress­ing.

He added, “It is the in­ten­tion to en­sure that we do all with­in our pow­er to en­sure that the re­trieval is done, and it is an ac­tive con­ver­sa­tion, and very soon, we should see some re­sults com­ing out of that.”

Si­mon, the fa­ther of a three-year-old boy, re­port­ed­ly dis­ap­peared on Feb­ru­ary 21, dur­ing a multi­na­tion­al drug bust off the coast of Grena­da.

Tragedy struck af­ter Si­mon re­port­ed­ly board­ed the nar­co-sub­ma­rine that sur­faced dur­ing a counter-traf­fick­ing train­ing ex­er­cise with re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies, which was said to be car­ry­ing 1.3 tonnes of co­caine aboard.

It was al­leged that Si­mon, along with an­oth­er of­fi­cer, board­ed the sub­ma­rine fol­low­ing the safe re­moval of three Colom­bian na­tion­als as they car­ried out a check for any­one else on board.

It was claimed that rough seas caused the sub­mersible to sink sud­den­ly, trap­ping Si­mon in­side, whilst the sec­ond of­fi­cer who had re­mained top­side was re­port­ed­ly thrown in­to the sea.