The Lambeau Fisherfolk Association is making claims of unsanitary conditions being experienced at their fishing facility.
The Association’s President, Sumattee Ramkissoon-Williams, spoke to the media on Thursday. She outlined conditions the fisherfolk have been exposed to which makes the facility unfit for use.
“It have a sewer problem there. When I pass and smelling something stink, is the sewer overflowing. When the sea high that water coming in there, in that toilet there, filth running on the ground that’s why we not inside there. One man choose to go because he have nowhere else to go to sell fish. One man choose to be on the outside.”
Mrs. Williams said there have been promises by Tobago House of Assembly administrations to address issues but she claims they have not been fulfilled. She reiterated the Association’s wishes.
“They tell me to pick something. I pick a spot between the river and the fishing depot, it have a nice spot there they call there a little park. Give us a stone jetty out there, give us an open fish depot. We don’t want no a/c fancy thing.”
TTT News contacted Secretary of Food Security Nathisha Charles-Pantin and Assistant Secretary Nigel Taitt for comment on the matter. They both indicated that financial constraints at the Division are contributing to the delay in repair works at several fishing facilities.