Stephon Nicholas

To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

For­mer tourism sec­re­tary Hilton Sandy was robbed dur­ing a home in­va­sion on Tues­day night.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, five men jumped a fence be­hind Sandy’s Ba­co­let Gar­dens prop­er­ty be­fore smash­ing a glass door to en­ter the house.

The 80-year-old for­mer politi­cian, who suf­fered a stroke in 2013, was not harmed. The men re­port­ed­ly stole cash and oth­er items be­fore es­cap­ing.

Speak­ing briefly to Guardian Me­dia at his home on Wednes­day, Sandy thanked God for his life. He com­plained, how­ev­er, that his throat was hurt­ing.

His care­giv­er, who asked to re­main anony­mous, said Sandy was up­beat but still shak­en by the in­ci­dent. She said she re­mained trau­ma­tised.

Snr Supt Rod­hil Kirk said po­lice would do all in their pow­er to bring the per­pe­tra­tors to jus­tice.

“I have con­fi­dence in my of­fi­cers; they will bring some sort of res­o­lu­tion to this mat­ter in the short­est pos­si­ble time. I know the per­son in­volved is a pub­lic fig­ure, but notwith­stand­ing that, we are do­ing all that we can do,” he said.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.