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An em­ploy­ee of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is among nine peo­ple de­tained in con­nec­tion with the van­dal­ism of four crit­i­cal wells in To­ba­go, an at­tack that se­vere­ly dis­rupt­ed the is­land’s wa­ter sup­ply.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath said pro­duc­tion was re­stored to nor­mal lev­els as of yes­ter­day morn­ing, but en­dorsed the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s de­scrip­tion of the in­ci­dent as “do­mes­tic ter­ror­ism.”

The To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion echoed those con­cerns, warn­ing of sig­nif­i­cant dis­rup­tion to the tourism sec­tor.