Some of the Perenco Trinidad and Tobago Limited workers wait on a shuttle boat to be transferred to Point Galeota on Sunday, after testing positive for COVID-19.
The Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union (BIGWU) has written to Dr Roshan Parasram, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at the Ministry of Health, asking him to intervene in the situation at offshore platforms belonging to energy company Perenco, where several workers have contracted COVID-19.
In the correspondence signed by Acting President Mario Als and which was shared with workers and the media BIGWU calls on the CMO
“to investigate and determine whether Perenco has met the required standards to ensure not only the health, safety and well-being of their employees, but also the public at large”.
Rhondor Dowlat-Rostant Over 35 offshore workers employed with the Perenco Trinidad and Tobago oil and gas company were transported to the Ministry of Health’s quarantine facility at the University of the West Indies’ Debe campus last evening, after they tested positive for COVID-19 while on duty on the Teak Alpha platform last week. The workers were transported to the facility just around 6.25 pm yesterday and were processed before going into quarantine.
Earlier, at around 10 am, they had been taken to Point Galeota by shuttle boat but there were no health officials to receive them. As such, they had to wait until health officials arrived, along with the maxi taxis which were to transport them to Debe. Guardian Media understands the workers stayed on shuttle boat for close to seven hours before a team of Ministry of Health officials went to process them at Point Galeota. However, the workers were forced to stay on the deck of the shuttle boat because the captain did not wan
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