Page 18 - Farley Augustine News Today

In this episode of Morning Edition, TEMA Director Allan Stewart gives an update on the oil spill in Tobago.

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago (Reuters) -Nine days after a slick was first spotted by Trinidad and Tobago's Coast Guard, an oil leak from a capsized barge remains unplugged, according to first responders and authorities, prompting nations across the Caribbean to coordinate a response. The spill has spread miles from Tobago's shore, the area first hit by the incident. Trinidad this week alerted neighbors Venezuela and Grenada on possible impact to their coasts.

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago (Reuters) -Nine days after a slick was first spotted by Trinidad and Tobago's Coast Guard, an oil leak from a capsized barge remains unplugged, according to first responders and authorities, prompting nations across the Caribbean to coordinate a response.

Someone has to be held responsible for the disaster that has occurred in Tobago with the oil spill. The words of Chief Secretary Farley Augustine as he spoke during a

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Cruise ship agent Charles Carvalho is pleased with the clean-up efforts, following last Wednesdays oil spill in Tobago. Carvalho told TV6 News that a message was penned to the Chief

A preliminary investigation into a mushrooming oil spill in waters near Trinidad and Tobago has found that an overturned and abandoned barge blamed for the disaster was being tugged to nearby Guyana. Officials in the eastern Caribbean island nation are trying to determine the owner of the vessel after last week's spill coated beaches along Tobago's southern coast and forced at least two schools to close over health concerns. Officials declared a national emergency on Sunday, and have...

"Trinidad and Tobago faces a national emergency as an unidentified vessel leaks hydrocarbons off Tobago's southwest coast, prompting a massive cleanup effort to safeguard coastal ecosystems and marine life."

Fuel continues to leak from overturned and abandoned barge as stain spreads into the Caribbean Sea

Officials determined that the barge and a tug boat were traveling from Panama to the South American nation of Guyana.