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Trawler explosion report to be released today
The highly anticipated report on the trawler explosion which happened almost four months ago is expected to be released today.
The vessel ‘Captain Lloyd’, which is registered to Prittipaul Singh Investments, exploded in the North West area almost four months ago.
Reports out of the Maritime Administration Department stated that the report which was completed almost two weeks ago has been forwarded to the Ministers of Agriculture and Public Works, Robert Persaud and Robeson Benn.
Orlon Munroe, while he was patient in the hospital
When contacted yesterday an official from the seafood giant said that the company was anxiously awaiting the findings of the report.
The official said that the report would bring closure to the tragic incident, and would help them to move ahead positively.
A source within the Maritime Administration stated that several recommendations have been suggested to the company.
One is that the company, Prittipaul Singh Investments, should develop a quality management system which tells each person employed there what he or she is required to do.
More so, the report has suggested that Prittipaul Singh Investments should develop more quality standards.
The report also sought to make the recommendation that emergency drills should be carried out more often.
Crewmember Orlon Munroe, 19, one of the three persons who were hospitalised after the trawler mishap, succumbed months after the explosion. The teen, up until his death, was a patient in the Burns Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Munroe sustained burns to over 90 percent of his body. Also injured in the freak accident were Keith Adams, 20, of Cane Grove, Mahaica and George Fitzpatrick of West Ruimveldt.
Relatives of the dead teen had said that they were anxiously awaiting the findings of the report.
Munroe had told this newspaper that they (crewmembers) had attempted to start the engine but a wire started to spark and the next thing, there was fire “all over”.
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