The res­i­dents of Beau­car­ro, Freeport, have is­sued an of­fi­cial state­ment fol­low­ing news that the plans have been scrapped to set up a mass body stor­age fa­cil­i­ty to house de­ceased COVID-19 vic­tims in their com­mu­ni­ty.

Ear­li­er to­day, pres­i­dent of the Fu­ner­al Prac­ti­tion­ers' As­so­ci­a­tion, Kei­th Bel­grove, re­vealed the search is on now for an­oth­er suit­able site to es­tab­lish the fa­cil­i­ty.

The fol­low­ing is the state­ment is­sued their at­tor­neys at Sov­er­eign Cham­bers…

Re: Pro­posed es­tab­lish­ment of a Mass Stor­age Fa­cil­i­ty for ca­dav­ers at Beau­car­ro, Freeport

Our clients, Mr. Siew­dath Ba­hal and sev­er­al oth­er res­i­dents of the Beau­car­ro Freeport area wish to make the fol­low­ing state­ment:

I, Mr. Siew­dath Ba­hal and sev­er­al oth­er res­i­dents of Beau­car­ro Freeport wish to thank the cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go and the me­dia for the sup­port giv­en on this is­sue. It was heart­en­ing to the com­mu­ni­ty to see the sol­i­dar­i­ty of our na­tion in re­ject­ing the man­ner in which this Mass Stor­age site was be­ing im­posed on our com­mu­ni­ty. We al­so wish to thank our MP, Mr. Rudranath In­dars­ingh, for his swift ac­tion and our At­tor­neys at Law of Sov­er­eign Cham­bers for their le­gal ad­vice, draft­ing and guid­ance which they pro­vid­ed on Christ­mas Day with­out hes­i­ta­tion. Fi­nal­ly, we are heart­ened by the good and ma­ture de­ci­sion adopt­ed by the Fu­ner­al As­so­ci­a­tion and its Pres­i­dent.

Dat­ed 27th De­cem­ber 2021

Siew­dath Ba­hal