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FIRST FAREWELL
Posted: Sunday, March 6, 2022
FIRST FAREWELL
He told his family that dive team leader Fyzal Kurban helped him stay alive, until two volunteer divers got to him, shortly before 6 p.m.
Rescuer hailed a hero
His brother-in-law, Fyzal Kurban, was one of the men inside that pipeline. He knew the other men, and Ramoutar said he could not stand by and watch as nothing was being done to find them. Ramoutar said he received a distress call from his nephew, Nicholas Kurban, that his father appeared to be trapped inside a pipeline along with four others.
An absence of humanity
There are no words strong enough to condemn the cruelty of the management of Paria Fuel Trading Co in dropping the news of the presumed death of four underwater maintenance divers on their families while the family members were camped in a shed outside Paria's premises in Pointe-a-Pierre.
T&T records 642 new COVID-19 cases, three additional deaths
To date, the country has recorded 129,963 cases.
Rock Hard loses cement tax increase challenge
On Wednesday, the St Lucia-based cement importer lost its legal challenge over the move by Trinidad and Tobago's government to increase taxes on imported cement.
Deyalsingh: Daycares to stay closed
"We are still concerned about young children and toddlers who are unvaccinated. The risk is still too high at this point in time to both the children and their parents. I empathise with the people who have been severely affected by this. None of these sectors asked for this."
Prostitution to forced labour: What human trafficking looks like in Trinidad and Tobago
Between 2013 and 2020, the CTU received 563 reports. The highest amount was 120 reports in 2015. For these seven years, CTU confirmed 126 were victims after 263 investigations and 58 people charged with human trafficking and related offences. In terms of nationalities of confirmed victims, Wheeler said that Venezuela has the highest percentage (80) for sexual exploitation, followed by Colombia at 2.5 per cent then the Dominican Republic at 0.8 per cent.
Coast Guard probes claims of assault by Grenadian crew
A release issued on Saturday said the Coast Guard is aware of an incident involving sailors from one of its interceptors and the crew of a Grenadian vessel on March 2. It said the allegations made by the crew were "not in keeping with the service-oriented ethos that the Coast Guard expects from its members."
Grenadian vessel crew claim T&T Coast Guard beat workers
"This is something we are going to make legal to make someone responsible, because we cannot be responsible. This is not a simple surgery or a cheap surgery. The Coast Guard, the Trinidad and Tobago Government, someone has to take responsibility for it. Someone must stand up, and I am not afraid to stand up. It is the guy's rights. It's human rights. It involves everyone, not just us. What will happen to us? We trade with Trinidad every week. What will happen to the foreign investors who can't speak English when they fall into their hands?" he said.
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