More than a month af­ter ac­tivist Alyssa Phillip was con­tro­ver­sial­ly ar­rest­ed dur­ing Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad, the labour move­ment is await­ing le­gal ad­vice on whether there are grounds to chal­lenge the mat­ter in court.

Gen­er­al sec­re­tary of the Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (Natuc) Michael An­nisette told Guardian Me­dia that at­tor­neys are re­view­ing state­ments, pho­tographs and oth­er ma­te­r­i­al sub­mit­ted in re­la­tion to the in­ci­dent.

Phillip’s ar­rest dur­ing the June 19 Labour Day pro­ces­sion sparked crit­i­cism from sec­tions of the trade union move­ment and the pub­lic, with many ques­tion­ing the po­lice re­sponse. The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) said of­fi­cers act­ed af­ter Phillip and oth­ers were not part of the au­tho­rised pro­ces­sion and were in­struct­ed to dis­perse.