Police probe whether murders linked to Local Government poll

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Police are investigating the murder of two men, including a close relative of a candidate contesting the October 21 Local Government election on a ticket of the coalition People’s Partnership administration.
Police Public Information Officer, Acting Inspector Wayne Mystar said the deaths of 21-year old Shiloh Mc Intosh and Kernel Job, 27, were being investigated by law enforcement authorities, but could not say whether the killings were related to the upcoming poll.
The police said that Job and Mc Intosh, the father of the children of Kizzy Edwards, the candidate for the Congress of the People (COP), the second biggest partner in the coalition, were outside the candidate’s office in Malabar, south of here, when they were shot and killed.