Janelle De Souza
THE Port Authority/MovieTowne saga continues, because the Port of Spain Infrastructure Firm (POSINCO) denies allegations of non-compliance with orders issued by the Excessive Court docket.
In a assertion on September 7, the corporate additionally denied reports that its officers were intimidating its client, Trinbago Industrial Pattern Co Ltd (TCDC) which owns MovieTowne at Invaders Bay, Port of Spain.
On August 23, bailiffs took take care of watch over of MovieTowne’s build of business and ceremonial dinner hall after POSINCO claimed the TCDC owed $10,904,121.23 in lease, which had amassed since Could perchance additionally 2021.
On August 24, Justice Eleanor Donaldson-Honeywell issued an injunction combating POSINCO from talking with MovieTowne’s tenants.
In a virtual listening to on August 26, the Excessive Court docket gave TCDC till August 28 to pay $3 million – which it did – and POSINCO changed into urged no longer to disturb the operations of TCDC or MovieTowne’s tenants, pending the dwell consequence of the Excessive Court docket topic.
On the replacement hand, on September 6, there changed into an alleged altercation.
POSINCO officers claimed they were “met with hostility” whereas “executing our tasks” at MovieTowne. POSINCO claimed that officers of Telecom Security Services, employed by the TCDC, blocked the door and threatened officers with firearms.
On the replacement hand, a MovieTowne manager dismissed this recount announcing Telecom officers weren’t even armed. The manager then claimed that it changed into armed POSINCO safety officers who threatened MovieTowne group.
In its launch, POSINCO maintained it continually observed the phrases of the court docket repeat and did not have interaction in intimidation ways, so there changed into no trigger of its representatives to achieve so.
“POSINCO safety has been directed to take care of minimal contact with TCDC personnel whereas asserting its ultimate to possession. Since re-entry on August 23, 2024, POSINCO’s safety officers were stationed on the premises. Right here’s in step with our build because the owner and is absolutely internal the phrases of the re-entry plot.
“Our officers are no longer deployed to possess interplay in any create of inequity and were explicitly urged to restrict interplay with MovieTowne group,” the POSINCO launch said.
The assertion added that “regarding the glum incident that took build on September 6,” POSINCO changed into no longer the instigator.
It said its personnel were merely executing their tasks beneath the court docket repeat, and it changed into regretful that others had had been urged to act in a “threatening map” in opposition to POSINCO officers.
