THE Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) said yesterday it was “totally supportive” of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s promise to help Trinidad and Tobago with the restart of the former Petrotrin oil refinery.

According to a statement yesterday from OWTU education officer Ozzi Warwick, the union is “extremely pleased and totally supportive” of the Prime Minister’s “continuous commitment to secure the restart of the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery”.

“Both the Prime Minister and the Minister of Energy, Dr Roodal Moonilal have been making enormous progress. Their efforts are phenomenal and historic and they must be commended without reservation,” OWTU president-general Ancel Roget was quoted as saying in the release.