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Former UNC senator Taharqa Obika, his wife and their children. -
ASH from St Vincent s La Soufriere volcano has shut the airport in Barbados until Friday, raising questions over the return of the family of former senator Taharqa Obika to TT from Togo.
Mrs Obika has been there completing her economics degree with their two children. They were shut out of TT by the border closure against covid19 last year.
On Wednesday, on Facebook Obika posted the cryptic update, Make your plans and make God laugh. The volcano has now put a spanner in the works.
While Obika had publicised his family s plight to get an exemption to re-enter TT and to get a visa and succeeded in both, the volcanic eruption presented a new factor in their travel plans, he told Newsday on Wednesday.
Ex-senator Obika s family set for race to TT
Former UNC senator Taharqa Obika, his wife and their children. -
THE wife and children of an ex-senator last Friday began a race against time to travel from Africa to Europe to the Americas within 24 hours, along the way dodging the global pandemic and the effects of a spew of tonnes of airborne ash from a Vincentian volcano.
Taharqa Obika on Tuesday told Newsday of his relief and gratitude that the Ministry of National Security had on Monday approved a visa for his Togo-born wife to return to Trinidad, on top of her exemption from TT s ongoing border lockdown against covid19.
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