Blue Wa­ters Prod­ucts Ltd ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Do­minic Hadeed re­turned to the com­pa­ny’s Or­ange Grove, Trinci­ty head­quar­ters yes­ter­day for the first time since his re­lease from pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion, re­ceiv­ing an emo­tion­al re­cep­tion from em­ploy­ees who ap­plaud­ed, em­braced him and wel­comed him back to work.

Hadeed ar­rived at the com­pa­ny’s head­quar­ters at about 10.30 am and re­mained on the com­pound un­til around 2 pm, meet­ing with em­ploy­ees from every de­part­ment, as well as the com­pa­ny’s ex­ec­u­tive team.

A video cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia cap­tured the mo­ment Hadeed en­tered the build­ing, with staff break­ing in­to ap­plause be­fore lin­ing up to hug him. Many em­ploy­ees ap­peared vis­i­bly emo­tion­al as they greet­ed their long­time ex­ec­u­tive chair­man.