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Dutch military helps clean oil along beaches in Caribbean island of Bonaire
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Armed forces from the Netherlands have been deployed to the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire to clear beaches of oil coming from an offshore spill blamed on an overturned barge hundreds of miles away. The military cleaned up several beaches on the...
Oil spill from capsized barge near Tobago soils beaches hundreds of miles away
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An offshore oil spill that prompted Trinidad and Tobago to declare a national emergency earlier this month involves hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel, some of which has reached the shores of the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire hundreds of miles away,...
Trinidad hires foreign experts to help contain oil spill and remove capsized barge
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The government of Trinidad and Tobago announced Tuesday that it is partnering with international experts to remove the wreckage of a barge that capsized in nearby waters and caused a major oil spill. T&T Salvage, a Texas-based company, and QT...
Oil spill near Trinidad and Tobago blamed on barge being tugged to Guyana, officials say
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A preliminary investigation into a mushrooming oil spill in waters near Trinidad and Tobago has found that an overturned and abandoned barge blamed for the disaster was being tugged to nearby Guyana. Officials in the eastern Caribbean island nation are...
An offshore oil spill has caused a 'national emergency,' Trinidad and Tobago prime minister says
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister said a large oil spill near the twin-island nation in the eastern Caribbean has caused a “national emergency” as crews struggled to contain the oil already coating numerous beaches on Tobago’s southwest coast. ...
U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter to have Sergiño Dest in camp ahead of CONCACAF Nations League final four
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter plans to have Sergiño Dest at the team's training camp for the CONCACAF Nations League final four next month, even though the defender is suspended for the March 21 semifinal against Jamaica. The 23-year-old outside back lost his...
Trinidad government inquiry into divers' deaths suggests manslaughter charges against company
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A government inquiry into the deaths of four divers in Trinidad who became trapped in a pipe while doing maintenance for a state-owned fuel supplier recommends that prosecutors consider filing corporate manslaughter charges against the company, saying it made...
Trinidad police are investigating a shooting that killed 3 people and wounded 5 others
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A shooting on the eastern Caribbean island of Trinidad left three people dead and five others wounded, police said Wednesday. The violence occurred late Tuesday in the northwest town of Morvant when a van drove up to a group of men gathered outdoors and...
