Caribbean360: T&T PM assures no fuel shortage

T&T PM assures no fuel shortage
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Chris Hoyos on 25/08/2011 09:24:00
 
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Thursday August 25, 2011 – Prime Minister Kamla
Persad-Bissessar yesterday sought to assure residents that fears of a fuel
shortage in the twin-island republic were unfounded and that supplies were
enough to meet demand.
Long lines of cars spilled onto the streets outside several gas stations as
motorists flocked to fill their tanks after reports of a shutdown at the
state-owned oil company, Petrotrin.
Head of the Oilfields' Workers Trade Union (OWTU) Ancel Roget said there were
internal problems at the bond but workers did not walk off the job.
Petrotrin Trinmar Branch President Ernesto Kesar also denied that there had been
any shutdown.
“Workers are disappointed with the slow pace or rather, no pace in
negotiations of zero by zero by zero but, indeed we have not taken any
industrial action,” he told the media.
Speaking to the media at the sod turning ceremony to start the construction of
the new police station in Arima, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said
there was no fuel shortage throughout the service station network.
She said she had been advised by the Trinidad and Tobago National Petroleum
Marketing Company Limited (NP) that it will continue to deliver fuel and that
the travelling public can be assured that supplies will be made to all its
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