Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says Trinidad and Tobago expects to receive “a significant sum” in compensation for the ongoing oil spill clean-up in Tobago.
The hydrocarbon spill, which was first spotted off the coast of Tobago’s Atlantic Coast on February 7, has damaged some of the island’s mangroves and threatened its tourism and fishing sectors.
Rowley, speaking during the “Conversations with the Prime Minister” public programme on Thursday night, said that the oil spill had occurred because of the activities of “people who did not want others to know that they were involved in what was happening there.
“The ocean is a very big place and a lot of things go on there and that’s why there is an international body which exists to come to a country’s aid if you find yourself being damaged by an oil spill of that nature or similar nature.”
