The Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs has dis­pelled any thoughts that it has not been tak­ing ac­tion on the tilt­ing Nabari­ma.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, the min­istry de­tailed the ac­tion tak­en by the Gov­ern­ment, af­ter it learned about the im­pend­ing en­vi­ron­men­tal dan­ger the ves­sel pos­es.

It said it com­mu­ni­cat­ed swift­ly with the Venezue­lan Gov­ern­ment and has been press­ing for in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing the sta­tus of the ves­sel.

Ac­cord­ing to the min­istry, it along with the Min­istries of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries, and the Min­istry of­Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty has been ac­tive­ly work­ing on so­lu­tions to the Nabari­ma is­sue.

It said Venezue­lan claimed it con­duct­ed ini­tial sta­bil­i­sa­tion works on the Nabari­ma and that it is no longer in any dan­ger.

How­ev­er, the min­istry said it has been per­sis­tent­ly press­ing the Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment for Trinidad and To­ba­go to do its own ver­i­fi­ca­tion but laments that with­out per­mis­sion this can­not hap­pen.

The min­istry said this Gov­ern­ment has al­so en­gaged dis­cus­sions with sev­er­al Am­bas­sadors in­clud­ing the Am­bas­sador of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca to Port-of-Spain on the mat­ter.

It added, while Venezuela agreed to per­mit a team of lo­cal ex­perts to cross the bor­der and as­sess the Nabari­ma, it lat­er moved the date from the end of Sep­tem­ber to the cur­rent po­si­tion that the in­spec­tion team would re­ceive per­mis­sion to vis­it on 20th Oc­to­ber.

It added that Venezuela has al­so de­nied a re­cent pho­to­graph cir­cu­lat­ing which pur­ports to rep­re­sent se­vere tilt­ing of the Nabari­ma.

The min­istry said this coun­try will con­tin­ue to lob­by to as­sess the ves­sel it­self.