Farley labels Tobago wells vandalism as domestic terrorism

STEPHON NICHOLAS

Se­nior Re­porter

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has de­scribed the van­dal­ism of crit­i­cal wells in To­ba­go as bor­der­ing on do­mes­tic ter­ror­ism.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, be­tween March 27 and 28, van­dals cut pow­er ca­bles at the Bloody Bay, Arnos Vale, Ba­co­let and Claude Noel High­way wells.

Au­gus­tine said this was a di­rect at­tack that has left 17 ar­eas across the is­land with­out a con­sis­tent wa­ter sup­ply.

Ar­eas from Crown Point to Par­latu­vi­er have been af­fect­ed, ac­count­ing for an es­ti­mat­ed 2.1 mil­lion gal­lons of wa­ter lost per day.

He said the THA is mov­ing swift­ly, with emer­gency mea­sures be­ing put in place to se­cure the re­main­ing wa­ter in­fra­struc­ture.

In a me­dia re­lease yes­ter­day, WASA said it will an­nounce an emer­gency dis­tri­b­u­tion sched­ule to mit­i­gate the im­pact.

An emer­gency me­dia brief­ing was sched­uled for 11 am on Sun­day.