Fuad: Ensure fishermen have life jackets

This will help, he said, to prevent calamities that may result from people not taking safety measures when going out to sea, such as Monday’s incident involving five fishermen from Aranjuez who were without life jackets in the Gulf of Paria when their boat sank.

Commending Capt Vincent Delfosse and the crew of the ferry Calypso Sprinter, members of the Coast Guard and all who were instrumental in the rescue of the five who were threading water for three hours after their boat had capsized.