Monthend for refinery progress, FCB/IDB US$200M partnership

Be­tween the wa­ters of Ch­aguara­mas, the build­ings of Mal­oney and the fa­tal high­way ac­ci­dent in Ch­agua­nas, the post-Di­vali week pipped the oth­er none-too-nice events that oc­curred pre-Di­vali.

In­deed, yes­ter­day’s Fri­day the 13th date and ac­tiv­i­ties in all lo­ca­tions—Ch­aguara­mas body re­cov­er­ies, Mal­oney cur­fews and mo­tor­cy­clists’ deaths—con­veyed the neg­a­tiv­i­ty over­hang­ing it all and the trend­ing dis­cus­sions.

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In what some say may have been the worst ma­rine in­ci­dent in­volv­ing T&T cit­i­zens—be­yond pi­rate vic­tims over re­cent years —last Sun­day’s boat­ing col­li­sion dis­as­ter has trig­gered many ques­tions and con­cerns. Thurs­day’s in­ter­view of sur­vivor Mal­ick Rud­der, soon af­ter the body of his friend Anil Ahy­ee was re­cov­ered, showed a youth in shock. Vic­tims, such as San Juan/Laven­tille Cor­po­ra­tion Health De­part­ment em­ploy­ee Ahy­ee, were av­er­age cit­i­zens seek­ing hol­i­day re­lax­ation that day.