The two sus­pects who were de­tained on Wednes­day in con­nec­tion with the rob­bery of Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh, re­mained in po­lice cus­tody yes­ter­day.

Se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials con­firmed this as they as­sured the in­ves­ti­ga­tion was con­tin­u­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said sev­er­al peo­ple were as­sist­ing of­fi­cers with the probe, but no one else has been de­tained or ar­rest­ed.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that no charges have been laid against any­one.

Deyals­ingh, 66, was robbed of his gold bracelet (be­ra) by two ban­dits in his con­stituen­cy of St Joseph on Tues­day (Sep­tem­ber 17).

The min­is­ter was out­side Nyabinghi Bar, at the in­ter­sec­tion of King and Aber­crom­by Streets, at 4.55 pm when the men – one of whom was armed with a gun – walked up and put the firearm to his head, de­mand­ing that he hand over the bracelet.

The men then es­caped in a wait­ing car.

Po­lice said the blue Hyundai Elantra car the sus­pects es­caped in was re­cov­ered hours lat­er at St Paul Street, Port-of-Spain, while two men were al­so tak­en in­to cus­tody.

The in­ci­dent at­tract­ed wide­spread crit­i­cism from all quar­ters, in­clud­ing the Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and the Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion (CBA); as well as res­i­dents in Deyals­ingh’s con­stituen­cy.

Some St Joseph res­i­dents said while it was good that Deyals­ingh had walked away un­harmed, the quick work by the po­lice to in­ves­ti­gate the crime and ap­pre­hend two sus­pects with­in hours, un­der­scored just how skewed the jus­tice sys­tem was.

Soon af­ter the in­ci­dent, the Health Min­is­ter told Guardian Me­dia he was fine. But on Wednes­day, he said he was “shak­en.”