Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee says the police are still sorting out issues regarding the brutal slaying of city businessman Farouk Kalamadeen but he reserved comment on reports suggesting that the man’s killing may have been drug-related.
Rohee told reporters on Tuesday that there were still a lot of issues and noted that he could not get into specifics, but said they were still being sorted out.
The minister said he felt that the man’s relatives were still traumatized and so he would not make certain comments unless he had information to ‘back-up’. Rohee was unable to confirm whether any ransom calls were made to the family.
Family spokesperson Bibi Shadick told this newspaper on Tuesday that the police had stopped updating them on investigations a little before Kalamadeen’s beheaded body was found on Wednesday, April 30.
She said at this point relatives were trying their best to move on. “We are just praying and asking for the strength to accept what has been,” Shadick said.
Farouk Kalamadeen disappeared on April 2 while he was on his usual morning jogging exercise on the Houston Public Road. His headless body was discovered in Cowan Street, Kingston and searches by police and relatives in the nearby trench for his head proved fruitless. His head was found three days later in a North Road canal, a stone’s throw from his business place.
There has been no word from the police on any significant breakthrough in their probe. Kalamadeen was alive for several weeks following his abduction.
