SHAR­LENE RAM­PER­SAD

The Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries has sent a team of three ex­perts to Venezuela, to ex­am­ine the FSO Nabari­ma.

This, ac­cord­ing to Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, Dr Amery Browne.

Min­is­ter Browne told Guardian Me­dia that af­ter sev­er­al diplo­mat­ic re­quests from the T&T Gov­ern­ment, per­mis­sion was grant­ed for this coun­try to send an in­de­pen­dent team to Venezuela to ex­am­ine the ves­sel, first hand.

Min­is­ter Browne said a re­port should be forth­com­ing from the ex­perts as to the con­di­tion of the ves­sel.

The con­di­tion of the FSO Nabari­ma has raised in­ter­na­tion­al con­cern that it can tip over, con­t­a­m­i­nat­ing the Caribbean Sea.

The ves­sel is said to have over one mil­lion bar­rels of crude oil stored on it.