Date: July 26th, 2019 Dear Editor/Newsroom, Early this morning ( Friday 26th July 2019), between the hours of 11pm – 3am, two vessels Unity TFT 1429 and Sauce TFT 1662 along with their Yamaha 75 engines were stolen at Belle Garden, Tobago. Sauce TFT 1662 was later found damaged against the rocks at Studley Park, due to engine failure. The […]
The Government cannot continue creating chaos for our citizens and must be held accountable. Enough is enough! When will we have a single prosecution and conviction for the spate of piracy threatening our fisher folk?
Date: July 23th, 2019 Dear Editor/Newsroom, Last night around midnight, four (4) vessels were stolen from the Gulf of Paria in the vicinity of Carli Bay and Orange Valley. Several fishermen who were onboard these vessels were thrown overboard and 8 are still missing. One has made it ashore alive and is being questioned by the police. Earlier this morning […]
Date: July 16th, 2019 Dear Editor/Newsroom, Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS) congratulate the Village of Castara, Tobago on their progressive move in banning the use of Plastic and Styrofoam food containers in the absence of Law. The rest of the country and our Cabinet should take example! Despite this Government’s expired promise to ban Styrofoam containers from January […]
Date: July 3rd, 2019 Dear Editor/Newsroom, When we hear of mosquitoes our Government’s knee jerk response is to spray more toxic malathion/diesel mixture. Is that really the best response or should we not be ensuring the exhaustion of other options first? It’s not just Government’s fault! Unapproved, unregulated, unauthorized and poor planning or development has led to siltation of our […]