Richard Lord

The re­port in­to the col­lapse of the Ca­roni bridge, which claimed the life of one man two years ago, has gone miss­ing.

Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er says he has been search­ing un­suc­cess­ful­ly for the re­port since as­sum­ing of­fice in May. The re­port was or­dered by then prime min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning af­ter 44-year-old Ram­dath Bis­soon, of Clarke Road, Pe­nal was killed. He died when the Bai­ley bridge col­lapsed while re­pair work was be­ing car­ried out. The tragedy oc­curred on Au­gust 2.

Man­ning ap­point­ed en­gi­neers Kei­th Sir­ju and Da­wood Pan­dor as part of a team to in­ves­ti­gate the mishap. The T&TTo­ba­go Trans­paren­cy In­sti­tute (TT­TI) has been among sev­er­al or­gan­i­sa­tions call­ing for the find­ings of the re­port to be made pub­lic, to no avail. But Warn­er told re­porters at the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter yes­ter­day that the doc­u­ment can­not be lo­cat­ed.

"If in the next cou­ple weeks we don't find it, then I will have to ask Mr Im­bert (for­mer Works and Trans­port min­is­ter) to tell me where it is. I haven't found it yet," Warn­er added. Warn­er said he was as cu­ri­ous as oth­er cit­i­zens to find out the con­tents of the re­port. "But I will get it and when I get it I will make it pub­lic. You know I have noth­ing to hide," the min­is­ter added.