Date: September 27th, 2019 Dear Editor/Newsroom, FFOS congratulates the Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) and their subsidiary Patriotic Energies and Technologies Services Limited in acquiring the Guaracara Refining Company Limited and the Paria Fuel Trading Company Limited. In an article titled “We will bring back affordable gas” in the Daily Express on December 19th 2018, President of the OWTU Ancil […]
Date: September 13th, 2019 Dear Editor/Newsroom, Yesterday we had another close call with death! Another one of our fishers, Christopher Granger from La Lune, Moruga was attacked and shot in the chest while being chased in broad 10am daylight by Venezuelan pirates on Tuesday just two miles off the Icacos coast! No Coast Guard, no radars, no care, no help. […]
Date: September 6th, 2019 Dear Editor/Newsroom, In times of danger we must stand together, patriotically defending our liberty, our flag and our nation. Families of murdered victims and caring citizens are invited to join the families of the seven murdered fishermen in conjunction with the Orange Valley, Claxton Bay and Carli Bay Fishing Associations and Fishermen and Friends of the […]
Date: August 16th, 2019 Dear Editor/Newsroom, On 13th August 2019, in his address at the ceremony for the ‘Inter-Agency Memorandum of Understanding for Collaboration in Regulating Fishing and Fishing Related Activities and Relevant Trade’, the Honourable Minister of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries, Clarence Rambharat referring to the Draft Fisheries Management Bill, is quoted as stating that “he expected to lay […]
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 […]
The extractive sector is the foundation of our unstable economy and requires the best minds, the greatest transparency and the most thorough accountability.
Our government needs to be reminded that ALL extractive resources belong to ALL of the people of Trinidad and Tobago.
How many more must die before our Parliamentarians sit up and address these avoidable and recurring fatalities?
Unless each one of us makes our voices heard we fear that we will continue to lose our spirit of nationhood, patriotism and solidarity.