FFOS accuses successive govts of maritime negligence after latest incident

Fish­er­men and Friends of the Sea (FFOS) has ac­cused suc­ces­sive gov­ern­ments of ne­glect­ing mar­itime safe­ty, as it called for an ur­gent search and res­cue op­er­a­tion fol­low­ing Sun­day’s boat­ing col­li­sion that left five peo­ple miss­ing.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, FFOS cor­po­rate sec­re­tary Gary Aboud ex­pressed con­cern and sol­i­dar­i­ty with the fam­i­lies of the miss­ing per­sons, say­ing every avail­able re­source must be mo­bilised to find them.

Full coverageTwo Boats Collide Off Chaguaramas, Leaving Five People Missing7 reports

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The or­gan­i­sa­tion said the first 24 hours were crit­i­cal and ques­tioned whether the full force of the na­tion­al search and res­cue re­sponse had been de­ployed.