Coun­cil­lor for Aranguez/Warn­er Vil­lage Amit Sook­nanan was among 31 peo­ple grant­ed $15,000 bail by two Jus­tices of the Peace af­ter be­ing charged with breach­ing the Pub­lic Health Reg­u­la­tions.

Al­so charged were cor­po­rate sec­re­tary of Fish­er­men and Friends of the Sea, Gary Aboud, head of the First Wave Move­ment, Umar Ab­dul­lah, and so­cial me­dia blog­gers, David Welch and Di­nash Ra­goo.

They will ap­pear vir­tu­al­ly be­fore the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates’ Court on Jan­u­ary 3rd, 2022. The group was ar­rest­ed and charged by Sgt (Ag.) Bowen and PCs Mar­shall, Chaitu, Gan­goo and Hy­po­lite, of the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion, for gath­er­ing in ex­cess of 10 in a pub­lic place.

At 10 am on No­vem­ber 30th, po­lice of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to a re­port of a large gath­er­ing in the vicin­i­ty of the Pad­dock, QPS. Up­on ar­rival at the lo­ca­tion, po­lice of­fi­cers ob­served a group that ap­peared to be in ac­cess of 100 peo­ple gath­ered in the area in what seemed to be an or­gan­ised man­ner.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS, no per­mis­sion was grant­ed for any type of protest at that lo­ca­tion by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).