Laventille blaze destroys TSTT cables worth $20M

Three peo­ple are as­sist­ing po­lice with in­quiries in­to a sus­pect­ed ar­son at­tack that de­stroyed ca­bles at the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) work cen­tre in Laven­tille on Sat­ur­day.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, con­struc­tion work­ers hired to clear the ca­ble yard at TSTT’s East­ern Main Road com­pound were at­tacked at about 5.15 pm by peo­ple de­scribed as Beetham res­i­dents, who threw mis­siles and lit Molo­tov cock­tails on­to the com­pound.

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Work­ers ex­tin­guished the ini­tial fires with fire ex­tin­guish­ers, but more lit cock­tails were thrown over the wall, set­ting some of the ca­bles alight.