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Monday, February 17, 2025

Candacy gets financial aid as recovery efforts for husband continue

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21 days ago
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RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

 

Can­da­cy Phillip, the preg­nant wife of Pe­te Phillip, says she is try­ing her best to re­main strong for her chil­dren as Well Ser­vices con­tin­ues ef­forts to re­cov­er her hus­band’s body.

Pe­te, an em­ploy­ee of Well Ser­vices, has been miss­ing since De­cem­ber 22 af­ter a part of Oil Rig 110 plat­form col­lapsed in the Gulf of Paria.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia, Can­da­cy, who will have her ba­by at the end of Feb­ru­ary, ex­pressed grat­i­tude for the fi­nan­cial sup­port she has been re­ceiv­ing week­ly from Well Ser­vices and for the steps the com­pa­ny has tak­en to keep her fam­i­ly in­formed about re­cov­ery ef­forts.

“I am grate­ful for the help they are giv­ing us. It is not easy, but at least we have some sup­port,” she said.

She ex­plained that while this has been a dif­fi­cult time, she is fo­cused on en­sur­ing her chil­dren can re­turn to some sense of nor­mal­cy.

“If I stay in bed cry­ing, it af­fects them, so I am try­ing to be strong,” Can­da­cy said.

She added that all her chil­dren have re­sumed school and are re­ceiv­ing coun­selling to help them cope with the loss.

“The prin­ci­pal and staff have been very sup­port­ive, and the chil­dren are get­ting coun­selling as well,” she added.

Well Ser­vices, in a state­ment, reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to the on­go­ing sal­vage and re­cov­ery op­er­a­tions for Phillip.

Part of Rig 110 col­lapsed short­ly af­ter 3 am on De­cem­ber 22. Search and res­cue op­er­a­tions be­gan im­me­di­ate­ly for Phillip, who was un­ac­count­ed for. How­ev­er, by De­cem­ber 26, the com­pa­ny pre­sumed he was dead and tran­si­tioned to a search and re­cov­ery op­er­a­tion.

Ear­li­er this week, the com­pa­ny said it had en­gaged a third-par­ty in­ter­na­tion­al provider known for its ad­vanced equip­ment and ex­per­tise to ac­cel­er­ate the re­cov­ery process. The state­ment not­ed, “Our team con­tin­ues to work tire­less­ly through­out this chal­leng­ing phase, en­sur­ing that every step of the process is ap­proached with dili­gence and ded­i­ca­tion.”

The com­pa­ny em­pha­sised its ef­forts to main­tain trans­par­ent and reg­u­lar com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the fam­i­ly. A ded­i­cat­ed What­sApp group has been cre­at­ed to pro­vide up­dates di­rect­ly to Can­da­cy and oth­er fam­i­ly mem­bers. “This group has been in­stru­men­tal in en­sur­ing that the fam­i­ly is kept in­formed about the sta­tus and progress of the re­cov­ery ef­forts,” the state­ment said.

Well Ser­vices al­so con­firmed that it is work­ing close­ly with rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties to en­sure the op­er­a­tion com­plies with all safe­ty and en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­to­cols.


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