Trinidad Express
No Rescue Decision Was Made
- Title
- No Rescue Decision Was Made
- Runtime
- 2:14
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Paria’s acting technical lead, Catherine Balkissoon, revealed that the company made no decision on February 25, 2022, to rescue the five divers who were sucked into a 30-inch pipeline.
- Title
- Residents cut off after landslides
- Runtime
- 2:08
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Residents of Upper Corosal in Gran Couva have been left without a garbage collection service and potable water due to landslips in the community, which have contributed to the deterioration of their roadway.
- Title
- Safety At Schools in good hands
- Runtime
- 1:52
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly says there are school safety officers in 91 Government secondary schools who are trained to respond to school violence among pupils.
She said these safety officers are augmented by officers of the Community Policing Unit, who interact positively with the students.
- Title
- Mode Alive is alive
- Runtime
- 2:59
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The opening of Mode Alive newest branch in San Fernando on December 8, was met with eager anticipation.
Scores of people flocked to the company’s newest location opened its doors.
- Title
- Chaguanas grandad killed at home
- Runtime
- 1:52
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Relatives of Chaguanas grandfather Moonan Hardeo recount the incident where he was shot dead at his Caroni Savannah Road home by intruders on December 13.
They say he reported an intrusion to his home a week earlier but the police never responded.
- Title
- Families of officers killed in the line of duty receive compensation
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The families of five police officers who were killed in the line of duty have received compensation from the State.
This was the revealed in the Senate by Trade Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon, who was answering on behalf National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds.
- Title
- Remembering Anthony Swan
- Runtime
- 1:22
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Anthony Selwyn Swan of Point Fortin, Trinidad, is listed among the victims of the December 1988 terrorist bombing that killed the entire crew and passengers aboard the Boeing 747, Pan American Flight 103 from London to New York.
A bomb in the cargo compartment at the front of the plane exploded when the flight was over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, resulting in a death toll of 270 persons.
- Title
- Colin Piper lied!
- Runtime
- 2:40
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force Lt Commander Michael Maharaj accused Paria Fuel Trading Company terminal operations manager Collin Piper of lying when he said that it was Maharaj who suggested there be a recovery and not rescue of divers in the Paria pipeline.
- Title
- Former cop slain
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The nephew of acting Police Commissioner McDonald Jacob has been held in connection with the murder of a former police officer Sayed Mohammed who was shot outside his Penal home on December 12.
Mohammed was heading to his clothing store when he was shot several times about the body, including his head. He died on the spot.
- Title
- Paria's frustrating "Document Dump"
- Runtime
- 5:18
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Commission of Enquiry chairman Jerome Lynch, KC, slammed what he termed a "document dump” by Paria Fuel, who dumping hundreds of pages of documents to the Commission over the weekend.
He noted that the documents were provided halfway through the Enquiry despite numerous requests for them to be supplied much earlier.
- Title
- Tragic end for toddler
- Runtime
- 0:33
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The body of two-year-old Allon Ramdial washed ashore near the mouth of the Ortoire River in Mayaro on December 12, bringing an end to a search where everyone had hoped for a miracle.
He as found entangled in debris and circled by vultures, almost a kilometre from the jetty where it is suspected he walked onto and toppled over into the river.
- Title
- Fire leaves family of three homeless
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- A San Fernando family is now appealing for emergency shelter after a fire at an abandoned house next to their rented North Road home led to their home being razed.
- Title
- No diving, but where?
- Runtime
- 2:24
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Senior Counsel Gilbert Peterson disputes LMCS construction supervisor Dexter Guerra's claim that Paria's terminal operations manager Colin Piper instructed him they was to be no diving in both the hyperbaric chamber and the 30-inch pipeline.
- Title
- Am I dealing with children?
- Runtime
- 2:25
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Paria commission of enquiry chairman Jerome Lynch questions whether he's dealing with children and expressed disappointment that witnesses were looking at the livestream proceedings before they gave their own testimony.
He threatened to take action if the violation was repeated.
- Title
- I told Paria of the conditions in the pipe
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Commercial diver Michael Kurban, whose father Fyzal was one of four divers to perish in a diving tragedy at Paria Fuel on February 25, told the Commission of Enquiry into the accident that he encountered two tanks in the pipeline when he attempted a rescue effort and that information was passed on Paria via its acting technical lead Catherine Balkissoon.
- Title
- THEY ARE STILL ALIVE
- Runtime
- 2:24
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Christopher Boodram, the lone survivor from the February 25 diving tragedy at Paria Fuel, was conscious and lucid though suffering from trauma and an injury to one of his ankles.
He indicated that the other four divers, who subsequently perished, were still alive when he was pulled from the pipeline.
- Title
- Were you there!
- Runtime
- 3:22
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Commission of Enquiry chairman Jerome Lynch, KC, questions the integrity of Paria Fuel maintenance technician Houston Marjadsingh, who signed off on a toolbox meeting form although he was not present at the meeting.
- Title
- Eat local day
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The University of the West Indies (the UWI) St Augustine campus' Faculty of Food and Agriculture celebrated Eat Local day on December 7 2022.
- Title
- It was Colin Piper's call
- Runtime
- 2:29
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Former acting operations team lead at Paria Fuel, Visham Harrichan told the Commission that the company's terminal manager Collin Piper gave the instruction that no one was to go inside the pipe.
He said at that time the divers trapped in the pipeline were still alive.
- Title
- We need those IMT records
- Runtime
- 1:38
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Commission of Enquiry chairman Jerome Lynch, KC, calls upon Paria Fuel and Trading Company Ltd attorney Gilbert Peterson, SC, to have the company's Incident Management Team records into the February 25 diving tragedy, be made available to the Commission by December 9.
- Title
- No one was monitoring
- Runtime
- 0:20
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Offshore operator Kirk Scott said he was not given any instructions by Paria to monitor the work being conducted in the hyperbaric chamber on February 25, when four divers lost their lives at the company’s Berth 6.
- Title
- Paria exercised no job oversight
- Runtime
- 2:51
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Commissioner Jerome Lynch, KC, grills Paria’s operations team supervisor, Johnathan Ramdhan, on why as the person with site authority was the contractor allowed to perform a duty which was not to be done.
- Title
- Divers were available
- Runtime
- 2:38
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- LMCS HSE manager Ahmad Ali tells the Commission of Enquiry into the death of four divers at Paria Fuel that in addition to dive supervisor Andrew Farah and another certified diver, the company had two standby divers ready to mount a rescue operation.
- Title
- Restructuring of Atlantic
- Runtime
- 1:22
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said the new Atlantic structure -involving stakeholders Shell Trinidad, bpTT and the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago-will see a greater involvement by the State in the supply and marketing of liquified natural gas.
- Title
- Government gets US$10M loan to assist with South Oropouche flooding
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Minister of Planning and Development Pennelope Beckles announces a US$10M grant from the Development Bank of Latin America will be used to assist with flooding issues in the South Oropouche basin.
Beckles was speaking at a COP27 follow-up meeting held at Hyatt Regency in Port of Spain on December 5.
- Title
- TTPOST celebrates T&T Diamond Jubilee of Independence with new stamps
- Runtime
- 0:22
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- From left: TTPost board member Aaliya Hosein, Deputy chairman Michael Seales, board member Tineesia Brebnor and Ag Managing Director George Alexis unveils four new stamps and souvenir sheet in commemoration of the country's 60th jubilee of Independence celebrated this year.
The designs of the stamps ($1.00, $2.50, $3.75 & $5.25) highlight the country's: Education system, Healthcare system, agriculture sector and Judicial system and the Agriculture sector.
- Title
- Witness has memory lapse
- Runtime
- 2:43
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Former LMCS safety officer Victor Dhillpaul is taken to task for his 'selective' memory over important details about the February 25 diving incident at Paria Fuel that claimed the lives of four divers.
- Title
- My son could have survived
- Runtime
- 1:08
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Kazim Ali Snr is brought to tears as he explains the chances his son Kazim Ali Jr and three other divers had of surviving the February 25 diving accident that claimed their lives.
- Title
- Locked Out
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- LMCS managing director Kazim Ali Snr speaks about the absence of Paria officials, including terminal manager Colin Piper, at the scene of the February 25 accident that claimed the life of his son Kazim Ali Jr and three other divers.
Ali Snr stated he was also locked out for three hours when he returned the following morning.
- Title
- We want answers
- Runtime
- 2:34
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Businessman Inshan Ishmael and his attorney Richard Jaggasar demand that the Government not only look after the residents of Bamboo #2 in Valsayn, but also provides answers as to what led to the devastating flooding that swamped the community.
- Title
- Food Crop Wipeout
- Runtime
- 0:48
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Farmers attached to the Plum Mitan Food Crop Project and the Orange Grove Estate were severely impacted by recent flooding. Those who did not lose their crops altogether, are left with tomatoes, sweet pepper, hot pepper, cucumbers, pimento and bodi still under flood water.
- Title
- The 'Death Of Petrotrin'
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- A mannequin dressed to symbolize Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley came in for a severe flogging on November 30, as executive members of the Oilfield Workers’ Trade Union and former employees of Petrotrin stage a memorial titled ‘Death of Petrotrin’ in observing the fourth anniversary of the company’s closure.
- Title
- Police service plagued with leadership shortcomings
- Runtime
- 2:47
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Naparima MP Rodney Charles supports the nomination of Ramnarine Samaroo for the post of Deputy Commissioner of Police, but he questions whether Samaroo could have any impact on the crime rate due to what he termed ‘monumental failures and leadership shortcomings’ in the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.
- Title
- Highway Madness
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Dash Cam footage shows the actions of the driver of a Blue Nissan Wingroad along the southbound lane of the Solomon Hochoy Highway in the Gasparillo area.
The vehicle, which had a modified engine, zig zagged on the highway lanes, before the driver lost control and 19-year-old Rond Mohammed lost his life after he was thrown from the vehicle.
- Title
- Flooding has caused fruits and vegetables prices to increase
- Runtime
- 0:31
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The Express visited several markets including the Arima Market, the Tunapuna Market and spoke with vendors at Charlotte Street and vendors are accusing farmers and "middle men" of price gouging.
- Title
- A Cry For Help
- Runtime
- 3:27
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Express photographer Jermaine Cruickshank speaks with a resident of Bamboo #2, who made a stirring plea for assistance not only for herself, but for her fellow residents who were all grossly affected by recent flooding.
- Title
- Indian Trail Road Gives Way
- Runtime
- 1:51
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Couva South Member of Parliament, Rudranath Indarsingh. and chairman of the Couva/Tabaquite/Talparo Regional Corporation, Henry Awong, tour the constituency after several roads including Indian Trail Road, suffered infrastructural collapse, rendering them impassable to vehicular traffic.
- Title
- Mayaro Breathes Easier
- Runtime
- 4:36
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Residents of Chrysostom Trace in Mayaro are assisted in their clean-up efforts by employees of the Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP), following flooding in the area over the past week.
- Title
- Flood pains
- Runtime
- 2:07
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Gloria Sooklal, a resident of Bamboo #2 and a single mother with an autistic daughter, shares with the Express the struggles she has faced as a result of recent flooding as well as the flood of 2018.
- Title
- My Teacher is my superhero
- Runtime
- 0:39
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Ministry of Education yesterday awarded eight pupils and their teachers for winning the "My teacher is my superhero" online competition. The ceremony was held at the ministry's headquarters in Port of Spain yesterday.
- Title
- Disrespect for Bamboo #2 flood victims
- Runtime
- 1:38
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Businessman Inshan Ishmael slammed the Government for its ‘disrespectful’ treatment of the flood victims at Bamboo #2 in Valsayn.
He also defended his verbal tirade at Works and Transport Minister Rohan Sinanan who visited the community on November 29, days after residents were severely affected by ongoing flooding.
- Title
- Manzanilla's Misery
- Runtime
- 4:22
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The devastation of a 20-kilometre stretch of the Manzanilla-Mayaro Road has led to the road being closed for the rest of 2022.
As at November 30, more than one week after the road started caving in, many residents are marooned and literally cut off by a combination of the destruction of the roadway and intense flooding following a sustained period of perennial rainfall.
- Title
- A Mother's Grief
- Runtime
- 1:03
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Sonia Bhagwandeen wails uncontrollably for her 19-year-old son Rond, who was killed when he was thrown from the vehicle he was a passenger in, and then struck by another vehicle on the Solomon Hochoy Highway in the vicinity of the Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba.
The driver of the Nissan Wingroad wagon Rond was in is said to have lost control of the vehicle, which left the southbound lane, went airborne, before landing in the northbound lane.
- Title
- Barge crew rescued
- Runtime
- 0:47
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The captain and five-member crew aboard jack-up barge ‘Liftboat Daniela’ had to be rescued off Trinidad’s West coast after the vessel toppled and sank in the Gulf of Paria, with 900 barrels of diesel fuel aboard.
Owned by Trinity Liftboat Services Ltd, the vessel was located in the Heritage Petroleum Company Ltd’s North Field, off Point Fortin, when it began taking on water (list) while attempting to demobilise from the site.
- Title
- A Waste of Time
- Runtime
- 3:38
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- An absolute waste of the Senate's time!
This is how Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh labelled the call by Opposition Senator David Nakhid for a Commission of Enquiry into the Government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Title
- Flood victims vent at Government Minister
- Runtime
- 0:48
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Minister of Works and Transport Rohan Sinanan was harassed and verbal abused by angry flood victims when he visited Bamboo #2 in Valsayn.
- Title
- Grand Couva Trials
- Runtime
- 2:56
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Grand Couva residents Daniel Collier and Asa Roopchand are at the point of desperation after land slippages left their property on the verge of destruction.
- Title
- Mafeking Mayhem
- Runtime
- 1:55
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Residents of Mafeking Village in Mayaro had to contend with remaining in their homes as the only way in or out of the community was via small boats and kayaks.
Villagers at Chrysostom Trace were severely affected, with flood waters from the Ortoire River extending above five feet.
- Title
- Misery continues at Suchit Trace
- Runtime
- 2:02
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Title
- Andrew Brooks
- Runtime
- 1:05
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Music teacher Andrew Brooks has been left with unwanted expectation that his Manzanilla home will soon collapse.
Soil movement has led to the house shifting downhill, causing breakage and pulling with it a recently constructed addition, as the integrity of the structure is now compromised.
