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Cruise ship agent Charles Carvalho is pleased with the clean-up efforts, following last Wednesday's 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 launched a massive cleanup effort.

"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.