Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Dr Amery Browne has con­firmed that the T&T sign which went miss­ing last week has been re­placed.

Browne post­ed a pho­to of the new sign that was erect­ed at 131st in Rich­mond Hill, Queens, New York, on his Twit­ter page and wrote: “The Trinidad and To­ba­go Street in Queens, New York now has sig­nage once again! Thanks to the May­or’s Of­fice and oth­er au­thor­i­ties, in­clud­ing our Con­sulate Gen­er­al.”

A pho­to of the sign’s cur­rent re­place­ment process was tak­en by the New York City Coun­cil and thanks went out to them for “re-in­stalling the Trinidad and To­ba­go Street sign!”

He al­so thanked Sen­a­tor Joe Add­a­b­bo for help­ing the New York City Coun­cil and NYC Coun­cil Speak­er Adri­enne Adams for re­quest­ing a po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Browne, who last week told the Guardian Me­dia that he is ex­pect­ing a re­port on al­le­ga­tions sur­round­ing the theft of the sign, said yes­ter­day that no re­port has been pre­sent­ed yet.

It is al­leged the sign was stolen some time last week.

Browne, in a pre­vi­ous in­ter­view, said that he in­struct­ed the Con­sulate Gen­er­al of T&T “to ver­i­fy this as­ser­tion, to meet with the May­or of New York as­ap on the mat­ter and to re­quest a for­mal in­ves­ti­ga­tion.”

The street was re­named dur­ing a gala fan­fare on Au­gust 20.

—RHON­DOR DOWLAT