Shane Su­perville

Se­nior Re­porter

shane.su­perville@guardian.co.tt

Three peo­ple re­mained in po­lice cus­tody yes­ter­day as in­ves­ti­ga­tors con­tin­ued prob­ing Sat­ur­day’s fire at the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) com­pound in Laven­tille, with fur­ther in­ter­views and a re­view of se­cu­ri­ty cam­era and so­cial me­dia footage ex­pect­ed to help es­tab­lish how many peo­ple were in­volved.

Sources con­firmed that in­ves­ti­ga­tors are ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue in­ter­view­ing work­ers as they ex­am­ine footage gath­ered dur­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

One of­fi­cer said these el­e­ments would as­sist po­lice in es­tab­lish­ing a time­line of events and de­ter­min­ing how many peo­ple were in­volved in the in­ci­dent.

The fire be­gan just af­ter 5 pm on Sat­ur­day, when work­ers hired to clear the ca­ble yard of TSTT’s work cen­tre, on the East­ern Main Road in Laven­tille, re­port­ed that they were ha­rassed by peo­ple de­scribed as “Beetham res­i­dents.”

Lit Molo­tov cock­tails were thrown over the wall and in­to the com­pound, caus­ing fires.

Po­lice said no file had been sent to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) for con­sid­er­a­tion, as sev­er­al “crit­i­cal el­e­ments” of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion re­mained out­stand­ing.

Guardian Me­dia con­tact­ed the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Unit for ad­di­tion­al de­tails and rec­om­men­da­tions on how con­trac­tors could pro­tect them­selves against at­tacks in cer­tain neigh­bour­hoods.

How­ev­er, a spokesper­son de­clined to com­ment, say­ing the TTPS may host a me­dia brief­ing to­day where these mat­ters would be ad­dressed.