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The peo­ple of To­ba­go are still hold­ing on­to hope as three days have passed since two fish­er­men went miss­ing at sea.

The au­thor­i­ties have been search­ing for the fish­er­men for the last two days. How­ev­er, a de­ci­sion on whether or not the op­er­a­tion will tran­si­tion from a search and res­cue to a re­cov­ery op­er­a­tion is ex­pect­ed by the end of to­day, ac­cord­ing to To­ba­go Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency (TEMA) di­rec­tor Al­lan Stew­art.

Al­bert James and Ju­nior Thorne left Pi­geon Point Fish Port on Tues­day morn­ing aboard a white and blue fi­bre­glass pirogue, TFT 1528 – XE­NA, but nev­er re­turned.