The Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ude­cott) has ex­plained the rea­son for a leak in the Red House on Tues­day.

Ude­cott is­sued a state­ment Tues­day night say­ing that "due to a bro­ken rub­ber seal on the alu­minum flash­ing in the sky­light of the ro­tun­da, there was a leak with to­day's rain­fall."

The state­ment added that "this mat­ter is be­ing rec­ti­fied by the con­trac­tor. It falls with­in the de­fects li­a­bil­i­ty pe­ri­od of one year and will be fixed at no ad­di­tion­al cost to tax­pay­ers."