Eliz­a­beth Gon­za­les

To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

A store­room at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port site along Store Bay Lo­cal Road was bro­ken in­to be­tween Fri­day evening and Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

The thief/thieves stole sev­er­al tools and elec­tri­cal wires worth over TT$24,000.

The vic­tim, Tony J. Ros­tant, a 41-year-old se­nior project man­ag­er at Elec­tro Mas­ters, re­port­ed the in­ci­dent to the Crown Point po­lice.

PC Fer­gu­son is in­ves­ti­gat­ing the case.

The ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port is cur­rent­ly un­der­go­ing a sig­nif­i­cant ex­pan­sion. The project, cost­ing over $1.2 bil­lion, aims to triple the air­port’s ca­pac­i­ty to ac­com­mo­date up to three mil­lion pas­sen­gers each year.

Ini­tial­ly ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed by this month, the con­struc­tion has faced de­lays due to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and oth­er fac­tors. As of De­cem­ber 2024, the project was about 91 per cent com­plete, with the new tar­get com­ple­tion date set for the end of the first quar­ter of this year.

The ex­pan­sion in­cludes a new ter­mi­nal build­ing with mod­ern ameni­ties, larg­er re­tail spaces, and en­hanced se­cu­ri­ty fea­tures. Once fin­ished, it is an­tic­i­pat­ed to sig­nif­i­cant­ly boost To­ba­go’s tourism sec­tor.

Speak­ing to the me­dia yes­ter­day dur­ing a break in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment par­lia­men­tary re­treat at the Mag­dale­na Grand Ho­tel, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert said he’s amazed by the project.

“It’s huge, it’s one of the biggest air­ports in the Caribbean and I’m sur­prised by the qual­i­ty of the work and spaces avail­able. In some cas­es, it’s bet­ter than Pi­ar­co,” Im­bert said.

He said the me­dia will be in­vit­ed to tour the project next month.