Tag: Venezuela

Venezuelan Pirates Attack T&T Yacht

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — President of the Yacht Services Association of Trinidad and Tobago (YSATT), Tommy Johnson, has called on yacht owners to travel in “a convoy if possible” after a 55-foot sailboat came under attack from Venezuelan pirates over the last weekend.

In a statement posted on the YSATT’s Facebook page, Johnson said on Sunday, the Sylph, a 55-foot Beneteau sailboat, which was positioned about 15 nautical miles north-east of the Hibiscus oil platform, was approached by a group of eight Venezuelans in an attempted piracy attack.

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Source: stluciatimes.com

‘Piracy’ kidnappings probed for criminal links

Julien Neaves

MINISTER OF National Security Stuart Young says recent incidents of reported on-sea piracy and kidnappings of locals were being investigated for possible criminal links.

He was responding to a question in the House of Representatives on Friday. He was asked whether the Coast Guard has sufficient resources to treat with increased incidents of piracy in TT’s territorial waters.

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Source: newsday.co.tt

Cedros fishermen attacked by pirates

by Radhica De Silva

Ce­dros fish­er­men are call­ing for more pa­trols, say­ing Venezue­lan pi­rates are at­tack­ing lo­cal fish­er­men in ter­ri­to­r­i­al wa­ters.

A day af­ter Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Stu­art Young vis­it­ed Ce­dros, pi­rates ac­cost­ed a group of fish­er­men off the Bonasse jet­ty and stole their nets. Dur­ing an in­ter­view at Fullar­ton Beach on Mon­day, fish­er­man Raesh Ram­dass said it was be­com­ing im­pos­si­ble to fish in lo­cal wa­ters be­cause the Venezue­lan pi­rates were op­er­at­ing open­ly at nights un­der the noses of the T&T Coast Guard. He said the pi­rates have moved out of the Venezue­lan rivers and were look­ing for easy tar­gets on the open seas.

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Source: guardian.co.tt

Trinidad fisherman escapes Venezuelan pirates, colleague missing

(Trinidad Guardian) Des­per­ate to es­cape Venezue­lan pi­rates, two kid­napped fish­er­men jumped off their ab­duc­tors’ boat on Mon­day night and took their chances in the sea. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, on­ly one of them man­aged to make it home safe­ly.

Bruised and trau­ma­tised Key­on Alexan­der, 29, of La Union Road, Erin, ar­rived home around 3 pm yes­ter­day, less than 24 hours af­ter he was kid­napped. He had spent the night swim­ming des­per­ate­ly and scream­ing for help from pass­ing boats.

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Source: stabroeknews.com