00:00We just have an ornament without a proper pen opening.
00:05You understand?
00:06Look at the ejection.
00:07Oh my goodness.
00:08I'm inside the top of the ejection.
00:09Don't look at the hook.
00:10I'm telling you a serious trade.
00:11Nobody can say that the fishermen are wrong.
00:17San Fernando fishermen say they were promised a fully completed fishing facility by January
00:2316th.
00:24But they say the Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries publicly announced there
00:29would instead be a partial reopening on Thursday.
00:33In mid-2024, work commenced and fisherfolk were given six months' compensation meant
00:39to cover the duration of time they would be out of work after being moved from Kings Wharf
00:45as part of the larger San Fernando Redevelopment Waterfront project.
00:49Six months was the estimated time it would take to complete a new fishing facility for
00:54them.
00:55Fishermen say it looks like there is still months of work left to do.
01:25My construction is still going on.
01:26I can't walk in with my slippers and my short pants.
01:29Fisherfolk say they are not willing to accept the facility in its current state.
01:34They are being allowed to use the jetty and lockers alone for now.
01:38But they say even those are incomplete and unsafe.
01:41Go there and see the height of that.
01:44And see.
01:45That's for yachts and things.
01:46That's for jetski and yachts.
01:47That's something functional for yachts.
01:48Yeah.
01:49That there for wind.
01:50The jetty?
01:51Well, as you see, no lights, nothing on the jetty.
01:52So you can't tell people to go on a jetty.
01:54So you can't tell people to go on a jetty and operate on it and no lights.
01:57Right?
01:58Because filfering already taking place here, you know.
01:59The contractor complaining that people come in and stealing things in the night.
02:04Right?
02:05So what could happen to us?
02:07They say key infrastructure, which was in the project's plan, has either been removed
02:12or has not yet begun.
02:14And it's another reason they are unwilling to move in until work is complete.
02:18They're supposed to have a breaker wall.
02:21Normally we used to anchor with both land and sea.
02:24Right?
02:25Bow and stand.
02:26Now you have to pay broadside.
02:28And we used to get trouble with bow and stand.
02:31You understand?
02:32So when a west wind blow there, you're both broadside.
02:36So it's going to swamp, mash up.
02:39One bad weather.
02:40One.
02:41It's going to mash up all them boats.
02:43Who's responsible for that?
02:44Diamond bread and butter.
02:47The vice president of the San Fernando Fishing Cooperative is now calling for an urgent meeting
02:52with Udicot to discuss these and other issues, saying they will not be moving into an incomplete
02:59facility.
03:00So the matter of extended compensation needs to be discussed.
03:04It's still under construction.
03:06Why are they doing that?
03:08We're going to have a big fishery, a big facility.
03:10With a bill.
03:11I don't know they can't handle that.
03:12Why?
03:13But they're rushing me to take a part right here.
03:15The boat repair should be done.
03:16Memorial boat repair.
03:17All them boat pack up.
03:18Six months now.
03:19All them boat have been repaired.
03:20We can't use it.
03:21We have to use the car park inside here.
03:22When we put in the boat to repair, we can't get access.
03:25We need answers.
03:26We want Udicot to get in contact with us.
03:28We was promised this.
03:29We want this.
03:31Sindhi Raghubar Tika Singh, TV6 News.
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