00:00We want our money right now. We want our money right now. We want our money right now. We
00:13want our money right now.
00:14Fisherwoman and the president of the Lambeau Fisher Folk Association, Sumathi Ramkissoon
00:18said, after over one year of awaiting outstanding compensation monies for losses during the
00:24February 7th oil spill disaster, she remains disappointed with the Chief Secretary Fahli
00:30Agustin.
00:49I lost everything in my boat. My cooler, my line, my nets,
00:53my engine was even damaged. I had to let the mechanic sort it out,
00:57all them things, the amount of money. I even borrowed money to buy back fishing gear for my
01:02partner. When you check up everything with the loss in the boat alone, it's like 60,000.
01:12I ain't gonna want to lie for that. It's like 60,000 and then I had to pay the mechanic to
01:19fix this.
01:21PDP leader Watson Duke was on hand during the media briefing
01:25and called for the revocation of the appointment of Chief Secretary Fahli Agustin.
01:29We have enough of a nonsense Fahli. Respond to this thing before next week, Monday,
01:36because from next week, Monday, we are going to put a series of action to revoke your appointment.
01:43President of the old Tobago Fisher Folk Association, Curtis Douglas,
01:47wanted to make it clear that $1.9 million was given by the THA to the association for
01:54persons who were contracted to work on the oil spill, but not fisher folk affected by the oil
02:00spill. When Mr. Chavez is making his utterances about how much money Mr. Douglas have or receive,
02:10it's not Mr. Douglas would have received any money.
02:14The old Tobago Fisher Folk, who worked as a contractor with the oil spill,
02:20these were the money was allocated to ADFA to pay the fisher folk. And he would have said he
02:26would have give us $2 million. It wasn't $2 million, $1.9 something dollars.
02:31THA Chief Secretary Fahli Agustin, when asked to comment on the matter, told the TV6 News quote,
02:37So far, the THA has accounted for every single cent spent on the oil spill cleanup and has taken
02:44the unusual step of showing publicly every single vendor service provider that was paid and how much
02:52was paid to said service provider. With regards to the promised assistance to fisher folk to be
02:58made available this month, that too will be published along with the criteria used. Further,
03:05the head of both fisher folk associations are part of the compensation committee and they will
03:11get to see and participate in spearheading the operations. So it will be done completely in the
03:17public's view. I'm not hiding how a single cent is spent and every cent spent paid will be made
03:25public so that the public can make their own judgments on who's being fair. End quote.
03:31Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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