Date: November 15th, 2019 Dear Editor/Newsroom, All fishers and seafarers are being warned that there is NO LAW or order on our sea! Last night armed pirates attacked us AGAIN!!! The first call was made to the Coast Guard at 10.19pm and after repeated (10) calls the Coast Guard called us back after midnight and asked us to remove the […]
Date: October 14th, 2019 Dear Editor/Newsroom, We are pleased to announce that the Honourable Minister of National Security Stuart Young has responded to our messages but has warned us that we are “on very dangerous ground” and that we “be very cautious about what “causes” we “take up and who” we “decide to declare a “fisherman””. The common statement being […]
Date: September 27th, 2019 Dear Editor/Newsroom, Enclosed please find a copy of correspondence today resent to our Prime Minister Rowley and our Minister of National Security, Stuart Young. This is the second “gentle reminder”, and third such copy we have sent (since the murders) with the hope that our leaders and our Cabinet would consider a strategically selected Cabinet appointed […]
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. […]
Year after year our Government pumps billions into our TTCG, and yet our seafarers continue to be brutalized!
Until and unless Government can deliver on their promises, our coastlines and our seafarers will continuously be threatened.
Date: January 30th 2019 Dear Editor/Newsroom, Presently, five Trinidad and Tobago citizens have been kidnapped from our maritime waters and are being held for a USD 200,000.00 ransom. In 2018 Minister Franklin Khan stated at a media conference that ‘because of our Government’s extremely cordial relationship with the Government of Venezuela, the Tank 70 oil spill of April 23rd 2017, […]