00:00Opposition Senator and Senior Counsel Faris al-Rawi has confirmed that he is the attainee
00:06for several people who are involved in one of the vessels in the boat tragedy which occurred
00:11in Shagaramas on Sunday. He was responding to a question from TV6 News on the matter
00:17during the opposition's media briefing today. Yes, I have been retained and I do act for
00:24several of the persons who are involved in one of the vessels. This is the vessel, the
00:31Bambolio vessel, so I am attorney at law for several people there. As usual, you know, I
00:37don't mix events between my private practice and representation for persons with events
00:44such as this, the two cross, but suffice it to say I can give you a very quick version
00:49of it, but I prefer not to go deep into it. One is that I have attended and my clients
00:55have already been to the Trinidad Debeco Police Service and have given statements. They are
01:00fully cooperating with the TTPS. They, in fact, rendered assistance at the scene, at the event.
01:10Al-Rawi says his clients' thoughts and prayers are with those unaccounted for and all the families
01:16impacted by the tragedy as he sought to make one thing clear on his clients' behalf.
01:22I want to tell you categorically that there was no minor involved in this incident. There
01:28was no minor conducting any boat. My instructions are certainly that, in fact, it's the opposite. This
01:34was a boat and vessel that was properly managed, etc. We are assisting the police. I wouldn't go much
01:40more than to say that, if that's okay with you. Would you be able to say, as a follow-up,
01:45any sort of interaction with the investigators is basically between any adults involved, as it were?
01:52Everyone whom I represent is conducting full participation with the TTPS and we are meeting
02:00all of their requests. It's at an investigatory level right now. There are multiple things that happen
02:07in investigations such as this. You know that there are things like coroner's inquests. There are lots
02:13of things. We are there to assist law enforcement and authorities.
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