Ministry launches probe into NiQuan blast
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Some of the damage caused by the explosion of the hydrocracker at NiQuan’s Gas-to-Liquids Plant, yesterday.
Renuka Singh
The Ministry of Energy has officially launched its investigation into Wednesday’s explosion and subsequent fire at the Niquan Energy Gas-To-Liquids plant in Pointe-a-Pierre.
In a release yesterday, the Energy Ministry said it had appointed a technical team to begin the probe. The team has been mandated to establish the facts of the incident and conduct a thorough investigation of the factors that contributed to the explosion.
The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian is the longest running daily newspaper in the country, marking its centenary in 2017. The paper started life as the Trinidad Guardian on Sunday 2nd September 1917 by the newly formed Trinidad Publishing Company Limited.
The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian is the longest running daily newspaper in the country, marking its centenary in 2017. The paper started life as the Trinidad Guardian on Sunday 2nd September 1917 by the newly formed Trinidad Publishing Company Limited.
Arson suspected in Cotton Hill Road fire
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Fire has destroyed the home of one of the men who allegedly took 14-year-old Michael Sooknanan to Petrotrin to steal copper, and reportedly fled after he was electrocuted.
The house was burnt to the ground last night.
Police believe that the fire was set deliberately, in retaliation for Sooknanan s death. The 20-year-old man whose home was destroyed lived a few houses away from Sooknanan s Cotton Hill Road, Mayo home.
MP requests emergency shelters for smoke victims
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Member of Parliament for Chaguanas East, Vandana Mohit, has made a call for emergency shelters to be set up for hundreds of residents being affected by smoke resulting from a warehouse fire in Citrus Drive, Enterprise, this week.
The fire started around 6 pm on Monday at warehouses that contained supplies for Alisha Marketing and Sumeds Limited Poultry Equipment and Supplies at Citrus Drive. Fire appliances from Chaguanas, Couva, Savonetta and Tunapuna battled the blaze well into Tuesday, and were back on the scene on Wednesday dousing the gutted material.