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Saturday, May 31, 2025

TTPOST refers viral video to police; refutes claims of mishandled poll cards

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GUARDIAN MEDIA NEWSROOM
36 days ago
20250425
File - The TTPOST sign at one of its many locations in Trinidad and Tobago.

File - The TTPOST sign at one of its many locations in Trinidad and Tobago.

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The Trinidad and To­ba­go Postal Cor­po­ra­tion (TTPOST) has re­ferred a video cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) for in­ves­ti­ga­tion, call­ing the footage “mis­lead­ing” and “de­lib­er­ate­ly cre­at­ed to mis­in­form.”

The video in ques­tion shows elec­toral poll cards scat­tered on what ap­pears to be a side­walk and al­leges that TTPOST de­liv­ery per­son­nel were re­spon­si­ble for dis­card­ing them. How­ev­er, TTPOST has firm­ly de­nied these claims, stat­ing that an in­ter­nal re­view found no ev­i­dence link­ing the cards to its staff.

In a state­ment, the cor­po­ra­tion said it be­lieves the con­tent was “in­ten­tion­al­ly craft­ed to erode pub­lic trust in the postal sys­tem dur­ing a crit­i­cal elec­toral pe­ri­od”, just days ahead of the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

TTPOST con­firmed that it has for­mal­ly re­quest­ed the TTPS to in­ves­ti­gate the ori­gin and in­tent of the video and de­ter­mine whether any of­fences have been com­mit­ted un­der the coun­try’s laws.

The or­gan­i­sa­tion al­so reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to se­cure mail de­liv­ery, es­pe­cial­ly for sen­si­tive items such as elec­toral poll cards. Ac­cord­ing to the Cor­po­ra­tion, all such mail is logged, tracked, and han­dled by des­ig­nat­ed of­fi­cers un­der strict su­per­vi­sion, with any breach of pro­to­col re­sult­ing in im­me­di­ate dis­ci­pli­nary ac­tion.

De­scrib­ing the sit­u­a­tion as a “de­lib­er­ate at­tempt to dam­age TTPOST’s cred­i­bil­i­ty”, the Cor­po­ra­tion ex­pressed con­cern over the rep­u­ta­tion­al im­pact on its em­ploy­ees.

“TTPOST re­mains com­mit­ted to trans­paren­cy, ac­count­abil­i­ty, and the con­tin­ued de­liv­ery of trust­ed ser­vice to the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go,” the state­ment con­clud­ed.


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