LOYSE VIN­CENT

Hours af­ter Chief Sec­re­tary An­cil Den­nis held a vir­tu­al meet­ing on Thurs­day evening with Glen Road res­i­dents about To­ba­go's jail re­cent­ly be­ing re­lo­cat­ed to their vil­lage, he sent a re­lease say­ing the un­oc­cu­pied fa­cil­i­ty has been closed.

In the state­ment, he said he had spo­ken to Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young about the mat­ter, and al­ter­na­tive ac­com­mo­da­tion will be sought for the pris­on­ers.

On No­vem­ber 7, Prison Com­mis­sion­er (Ag.) Den­nis Pul­chan com­mis­sioned the Glen Road fa­cil­i­ty and moved in pris­on­ers the same day.

Ac­cord­ing to To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty of­fi­cials, the build­ing at Montes­sori Dri­ve was ear­marked as a COVID-19 fa­cil­i­ty for pris­on­ers, as 13 pris­on­ers and five prison of­fi­cers were in­fect­ed with the virus.

How­ev­er, Pul­chan an­nounced that it was the is­land's new jail.