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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Mystery oil spill at Waterfront

by

Rishard Khan
2176 days ago
20190312
An aerial view of oil spill at the Waterfront Complex.

An aerial view of oil spill at the Waterfront Complex.

The Coast Guard is cur­rent­ly as­sist­ing the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Agency (EMA) in in­ves­ti­gat­ing the source of an oil spill at the Wa­ter­front Com­plex on Tues­day.

Passers­by re­port­ed a thick black coat­ing cov­er­ing the nor­mal­ly teal wa­ters of the Wa­ter­front near the area where the wa­ter taxis would nor­mal­ly berth.

The oil slick clung against the walls of the dock, stretch­ing past where the Cabo Star is usu­al­ly docked, with on­ly a few streams drift­ing out to­wards the Caribbean Sea.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic spec­u­lat­ed the oil may have orig­i­nat­ed from the wa­ter taxis.

But EMA Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor Hay­den Ro­mano told Guardian Me­dia that the trail did not be­gin there.

“Mar­itime preser­va­tion is on site. Mar­itime Ser­vices are go­ing to be on site soon with the EMA and the Min­istry of En­er­gy and the In­sti­tute of Ma­rine Af­fairs be­cause up to now we have not been able to iden­ti­fy the source.”

He said that since the in­ci­dent oc­curred, the Mar­itime Preser­va­tion De­part­ment has been util­is­ing booms to ab­sorb the oil.

Of­fi­cials at the EMA told Guardian Me­dia: “We got the com­plaint rough­ly around 8.30 am. We were able to mo­bilise and were on site around by 10.30. Right now Coast Guard is on site do­ing fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tions and they will share their find­ings with us.”


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