Yvonne Webb

Doc­tors have not yet re­leased the ex­tent of his in­juries. Mar­ket­ing and com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­ag­er of PTSC, Carl Ramdeo, said in­for­ma­tion from the hos­pi­tal was sketchy. Short­ly be­fore 3 pm on Wednes­day Afif dis­em­barked from a PTSC bus at the drop-off point at the hos­pi­tal en­trance, Chancery Lane, San Fer­nan­do. Eye­wit­ness­es said while cross­ing the road an­oth­er PTSC bus, pro­ceed­ing in the same di­rec­tion, struck him. Afif, of 1a Bonet Lane, Brinsworth, S60 5NE, fell on the pave­ment and hit his head.

As he re­mained bleed­ing on the road, from his ears, nose and head, Afif told the T&T Guardian he was from Eng­land.

He said he was in the coun­try alone. He could not re­mem­ber where in the coun­try he was stay­ing.

He could not re­call, ei­ther, a tele­phone num­ber to con­tact rel­a­tives. Yes­ter­day, PTSC of­fi­cials in­vit­ed the me­dia to ac­com­pa­ny them to vis­it Afif at hos­pi­tal. How­ev­er, this did not ma­te­ri­alised as se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers at the hos­pi­tal said PTSC should have made "min­is­ter-to- min­is­ter" arrange­ments to al­low the me­dia ac­cess. Ramdeo lat­er said the mat­ter was en­gag­ing the at­ten­tion of the cor­po­ra­tion. He said the in­ci­dent was of con­cern to the board and man­age­ment, as was all mat­ters con­cern­ing per­sons who used the road­ways and the bus ser­vice. Ramdeo said the PTSC was await­ing the re­sults of the in­ves­ti­ga­tions by the po­lice and al­so was con­duct­ing its own probe in­to the mat­ter.

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Of­fi­cials from the British High Com­mis­sion yes­ter­day vis­it­ed Shamshoum Afif at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. A spokesman said Lisa Her­nan­dez, of the British High Com­mis­sion, vis­it­ed Afif and spoke with the doc­tor as­signed to treat him. She was briefed on his con­di­tion and his treat­ment plan.

Se­cu­ri­ty guards al­so were post­ed on the ward to pre­vent me­dia per­son­nel in­ter­view­ing the in­jured man.