Bring back the hangman, Jack Warner tells mourners in Felicity

Pallbearers carry the bodies of the Ramsarran brothers to the cremation site

The MP for Chaguanas West attended the funeral Wednesday of two young men from Felicity who were murdered at sea and he used the oppoortunity to again call for the resumption of hangings in Trinidad & Tobago.

Warner first raised the issue last year and the government later introduced a bill in Parliament to hang convicted killers. However the bull died because it did not get the required support from the opposition People's National Movement (PNM).

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The victims - two brothers Ravi and Kassinath Ramsarran, 26 and 31 respectively— and a third person, Prem Squires, went fishing earlier this month in the Gulf of Paria. All three were murdered during the trip and their bodies bound and dumped in the ocean. No one has caught the "pirates" so far. 

Warner pledged to take the hanging matter back to cabinet and ask his colleagues in government to bring back the bill. 

His constituents in Felcity also called for the death penalty and circulated a petition calling for the return of capital punishment. 

The Works and Infrastructure minister signed the document and lamented that he has been silent on the issue for too long. 

He said it is time to break his silence and pledged to continue his advocacy for the death penalty.