The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has con­firmed that a per­son pic­tured in a vi­ral so­cial me­dia post is an ac­tu­al em­ploy­ee of the com­pa­ny.

“We can con­firm that the per­son in the pho­to is an em­ploy­ee of a le­git­i­mate T&TEC con­trac­tor and was con­duct­ing au­tho­rised T&TEC busi­ness when the pho­to was tak­en,” the com­pa­ny said in an of­fi­cial state­ment.

The re­sponse comes af­ter the so­cial me­dia post went vi­ral, with an im­age of the per­son stand­ing in front of a sil­ver car, out­side a gate. The post read: “Please be on the look out for this man and this ve­hi­cle vis­it­ing homes pre­tend­ing to be from T&TEC. In­for­ma­tion from T&TEC states oth­er­wise. So please be alert.”

T&TEC, in its re­sponse, is­sued its own con­fir­ma­tion at­tached to the orig­i­nal vi­ral post.

This poster/advertisement advises the public on the hotline numbers to call to verify the credentials of company employees and/or contractors. [Image courtesy T&TEC]

T&TEC

The com­pa­ny is en­cour­ag­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic to call the T&TEC Es­tate Po­lice’s of­fi­cial hot­line num­bers to ver­i­fy the iden­ti­ty of any­one claim­ing to be a T&TEC em­ploy­ee/con­trac­tor. It rec­om­mends that cus­tomers save the num­bers for their area in their con­tacts list for ease of use.

“Cus­tomers are re­mind­ed that the Com­mis­sion does, on oc­ca­sion, car­ry out checks of me­ters and needs to ac­cess cus­tomers’ prop­er­ties to do so,” T&TEC ex­plained.

It added: “The Com­mis­sion al­so en­gages in week­ly dis­con­nec­tions for the non-pay­ment of ar­rears, which may utilise con­trac­tors’ ser­vices. Em­ploy­ees or rep­re­sen­ta­tives are re­quired to dis­play their Com­mis­sion is­sued iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and/or present it on re­quest.”