National Pride or National Disgrace?
Date: December 18th, 2019 Dear Editor/Newsroom, To read that the Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (UDeCOTT) has now spent 89 million TT dollars to renovate an already b…
Other Major Infrastructural Projects
Government Expenditure
Infrastructural Development
Was FFOS wrong at all?
Date: October 19th, 2019 Dear Editor/Newsroom, It appears that aluminium projects being pursued by the Rowley Government are in jeopardy. These projects are at various stages of nego…
Infrastructural Development
While POS Floods, Invaders Bay Bulldozed
Date: October 11th, 2019 Dear Editor/Newsroom, Did the EMA approve a CEC for bulldozing which is now occurring? Why has the Minister of Planning not charged the culprits? This bulldozed area is mo…
Environmental Impact Assessments
Supplemental EIA for Invaders Bay
c/o #34 Frederick Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies Tel (868) 674-7911. Fax: (868) 355-7671. Cell: (868) 355-7671 Email: ffosg[email protected] Press Statement Supplemental …
Infrastructural Development
Accident or Negligence?
Date: May 28th , 2019 Dear Editor/Newsroom, Did the massive chemical fire which took place on Sunday 26th May 2019 in Pond “A” at Kaizen Environmental Services in La Brea occur accidental…
Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESAs)
Sandals Withdraw
Date: January 16th, 2019 Dear Editor/Newsroom, It has been reported that Sandals has withdrawn the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the construction of the Sandals Resort in Buccoo Estat…
Infrastructural Development
Concerns raised 20 years ago are now echoed
Dear Editor/ Newsroom FFOS concerns raised 20 years ago are now echoed When will we learn? In 2000, Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS) lobbied for the protection of Invaders Bay Man…
Aripo
Videos and pictures of breaches in law by the Ministry of Works and Transport (see downloadable pdf for Video and Image links)
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Aripo
Bulldozers wreak havoc. Is this the last of the world famous Aripo Savannas?
Date: January 15th 2018 Dear Editor/Newsroom, One week has passed since the heavy earth moving machinery started bulldozing the southern boundary of the Aripo Savannas including the historic t…
Aripo Savannas Highway Case
FFOS commends Dr. Terrence Farrell
Date: November 12th 2017 Dear Editor/Newsroom, Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS) commend Dr. Terrence Farrell, Chairman of the Government appointed Economic Development Advisory Board (E…
Aripo
FFOS seek leave to apply for a Judicial Review of the decision to issue CEC 4952/2016
Date: October 4th 2017 Dear Editor/Newsroom, Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS) have on 29th September 2017, filed an application for Leave for a Judicial Review of the decision by the E…
Infrastructural Development
Systemic prevention to control mosquito population
Unless preventive measures are first exhausted, we risk ecosystem imbalances such as the decimation of insectivorous bats and beneficial pollinators, and the cumulative impacts of long-term neurotoxin…
Aripo Savannas Highway Case
Irresponsible Approval
Date: August 15th 2017 Dear Editor/Newsroom, The attached letter was sent to the Honourable Camille Robinson-Regis, Minister of Planning and Development on August 7th 2017 and was copied to Hi…
Aripero Development
National Bird Under Siege (see downloadable PDF for images and video links)
Date: June 8th , 2017 Dear Editor/Newsroom, We must protect our wetlands. Although hunters kill the Scarlet Ibis, with its habitat the birds will continue to repopulate. When their na…
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