Residents of Trinidad and Tobago’s Beaucarro Village in St Mary’s, Freeport turned out in their numbers yesterday for an urgent village meeting to voice their concerns against a planned facility to store the bodies of those who died from COVID-19.
The residents are even threatening to form a human barricade if need be to halt operations at the makeshift morgue on January 1, 2022, when it is set to be open.
Last Saturday, T&T’s Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram confirmed a mass storage facility would be established in Freeport to store the bodies of people who died from COVID-19.
Yesterday’s meeting which was hosted by the concerned residents kicked off at and saw an appearance by MP Rudranath Indarsingh, who was invited by residents, saying the plan was never brought before any statutory meeting for statutory approval.
