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To­ba­go Emer­gency Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (TEMA) Di­rec­tor Al­lan Stew­art says au­thor­i­ties will shut down il­le­gal night par­ties at sea im­me­di­ate­ly, fol­low­ing the sink­ing of an­oth­er ves­sel at No Man’s Land on Sat­ur­day night.

Stew­art con­firmed that a ves­sel op­er­at­ing in the Buc­coo Reef Ma­rine Park area took on wa­ter and went un­der. All peo­ple on board were evac­u­at­ed safe­ly, but Stew­art not­ed the boat was op­er­at­ing with­out the nec­es­sary ap­provals and may have been over­loaded.

He said ac­tion will be tak­en against the ves­sel’s op­er­a­tor.