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President General of the OWTU says government needs to do more monitoring of contractors operating within its offshore facilities.

Speaking outside the base for Well Services Petroleum Company Limited in South Oropouche on Tuesday, Ancel Roget says accidents like the one which led to the death of rig worker Pete Philip, will continue to occur if the underlying problems are not addressed.

Our reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh was there.
Transcript
00:00With the deaths of four divers from the LMCS barrier pipeline tragedy still
00:05fresh in the minds of many, President General of the OWTU Ansel Roger says
00:10the country might have hoped that another offshore death would be a very
00:15distant possibility. But with the loss of 47-year-old Pete Phillip following the
00:20collapse of the rig he was working on in December, Roger says it is clear nothing
00:25has been learned as it relates to safety.
00:55He says it is unacceptable that 44 days have passed and the company is yet to
01:03pump resources into a quicker recovery process. On Tuesday, outside the gates of
01:08Wells Services Petroleum Company Limited, he called for compensation for the
01:13family and government's intervention in the matter.
01:25independent to take legal action against the company for breaches and to
01:32speed up those in investigations but most importantly get whatever equipment
01:39is necessary to retrieve the remains of the of the worker because that is what
01:46we're talking about remains. Phillip's brother on Tuesday criticized the
01:50Minister of Energy's approach to the situation and called for government to
01:54learn from incidents like this and the Paria deaths to improve conditions for
01:59others. Do not let my brother death go in vain. I want to see a difference in
02:05safety. I want to see a difference in the standards and I would like to see that
02:09the government get involved and take action against these companies for what
02:13they're doing so that we could have a safer standard for when guys go out there
02:16to work. They don't have to face these things. Unless people are being
02:20held accountable, we would keep going on that action with many workers will be
02:25injured and the same thing with crime. No one has been held responsible. That is
02:30why crime will always be on our eyes and if this is the kind of leader that we
02:34accepting, then we're going on a very bad road.
02:37Cindy Raghubar, Tika Singh, TV6 News
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