RHON­DOR DOWLAT  

Se­nior Re­porter

rhon­dor.dowlat@guardian.co.tt 

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the Fire Ser­vice's re­sponse to the trag­ic blaze that claimed the lives of D’Abadie/O’Meara MP and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, 48, and two of her chil­dren is still on­go­ing.

Roo­sevelt Bruce, for­mer Chief Fire Of­fi­cer and chair­man of the three-mem­ber in­ves­tiga­tive com­mit­tee, con­firmed to the Guardian Me­dia on Tues­day that the probe is not yet com­plete. 

Bruce stat­ed, “It is not quite com­plet­ed.” He added that while he can­not dis­close the find­ings so far, the fi­nal re­port will be sub­mit­ted to the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil once the in­ves­ti­ga­tion is con­clud­ed.

The com­mit­tee, which al­so in­cludes Kurt Cadet, Chair­man of the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Au­thor­i­ty (OS­HA), and Ashti Ma­habir, an at­tor­ney in the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Le­gal Af­fairs, was ap­point­ed by Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion aims to ex­am­ine the Fire Ser­vice’s han­dling of the fire that oc­curred at Mor­ris-Ju­lian’s Far­fan Street, Ari­ma, home in the ear­ly hours of De­cem­ber 16, 2024. 

The fire re­sult­ed in the deaths of Mor­ris-Ju­lian, her 25-year-old daugh­ter Xi­anne, and six-year-old son Je­si­ah, spark­ing pub­lic out­cry and calls for ac­count­abil­i­ty.

Ini­tial­ly, the in­ves­ti­ga­tion was ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed with­in two weeks. Min­is­ter Hinds had as­sured that the find­ings would be made pub­lic once the re­port is fi­nal­ized.