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Ot­to Car­ring­ton

T&T Scrap Iron Deal­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Al­lan Fer­gu­son is re­new­ing calls for the Gov­ern­ment to sup­port a lo­cal ship-break­ing ini­tia­tive that promis­es to rid na­tion­al wa­ters of derelict and leak­ing ves­sels for just $1.

Fer­gu­son’s pro­pos­al fol­lows the dis­cov­ery of thou­sands of bar­rels of hy­dro­car­bons that were il­le­gal­ly dumped in the hull of an aban­doned long­lin­er ship in an area known as the “Grave­yard” off Ch­aguara­mas on Wednes­day.