The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go has con­firmed an in­ci­dent where a dog was de­tect­ed this morn­ing at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port. The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty failed to iden­ti­fy which area of the air­port the dog was in its state­ment.

It said the stan­dard safe­ty pro­to­cols and emer­gency re­sponse mea­sures were im­me­di­ate­ly ac­ti­vat­ed. "To en­sure the safe­ty of all avi­a­tion op­er­a­tions and stake­hold­ers, there was a tem­po­rary pause in all flight op­er­a­tions," the state­ment said.

The ca­nine was con­tained ac­cord­ing to usu­al safe­ty pro­ce­dures, the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty said. Flight op­er­a­tions re­sumed at 7:11 am at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port. The Min­is­ter of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion, Eli Za­k­our, has been ap­prised of the in­ci­dent and has been in com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the Au­thor­i­ty to en­sure the con­tin­u­a­tion of safe and se­cure avi­a­tion op­er­a­tions at the Pi­ar­co Aero­drome.