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Mark Robba, owner of the majestic 51m sailing superyacht Dunia Baru, recalls one memorable morning in Myanmar last year, we jumped off the yacht onto a big rigid inflatable boat (RIB) and raced out to a fishing boat where we traded two packs of Red Bull and a couple of cartons of cigarettes for two big buckets full of fresh ocean shrimp. What a treat!

Robba has endless travel tales to tell, but his joy lies in sharing moments like this with those he invites to charter the boat throughout the year. More owners are jumping on the bandwagon, keen to recoup some of the cost of ownership and driven by a steady rise in demand for charters in Southeast Asia.

The region is fertile ground for those in search of rich traveller tales. While Phuket remains one of the most popular destinations, aided by easy accessibility and Thailands loosening of charter regulations, for many, part of the appeal of charter lies in finding more remote spots. There are plenty to choose from. Myanmar and the Mergui Archipelago are up there with Raja Ampat and Indonesias Lesser Sunda Islands.

Trend forecasters and industry insiders talk about a new type of high-net-worth traveller, tired of identikit luxury at five-star resorts who seek out something with new experience and exploration at its core instead. Once owners have decided theyve enjoyed the Med and the Caribbean, they are taking their yachts further afield, explains Tom Debuse, director of charter management at Y.Co. As a result there are more yachts available and a growing market.

There are charter brokers galore in the region now, all touting superyachts to the worlds fussiest clients. So how do these experience-hungry travellers choose which one to set sail on? If youre working with a good broker, theyll be able to match a yacht to your needs, Debuse says. Those needs, though, can vary greatly from families seeking smaller yachts with intimate lounge spaces, to gourmet travellers who might want a Michelin-starred chef on board, to party people, whose priorities might include a good speaker system and enough deck space to dance freely under the stars. One must-have, regardless of the customer, seems to be a well-stocked toy garage.

Robba agrees. My motto for charter is that he with the most toys wins. We carry four RIBs on board, three jetskis, three stand-up paddleboards, three sea kayaks, a sunfish and two banana boats. Weve got diving gear for 14 and the most awesome stereo system, so if you want to have a party its the place to be.

At last years Monaco Yacht Show, toys were everywhere. From inflatable climbing walls and electronic surfboards to ecological golf balls that dissolve into fish food and helicopters which can land guests straight on deck after a days sightseeing, there seems no end of innovation. The new Aurora-6 personal submarine comes decked out with its own mini-bar and an emergency bathroom. Fractional jet ownership giants NetJets were also at the show, explaining how the most hassle-free way to reach a charter yacht in these far-flung, remote destinations is by flying private. Naturally.

The ability to ensure that time off the boat is as enjoyable as it is on board, is also paramount. Enter Based on a True Story, a company which promises to take charter to the next level. Founder Niel Fox explains: Chartering a yacht for two weeks is a pricey investment, were an insurance policy to make sure guests experience something truly amazing.

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The company organises once-in-a-lifetime experiences, choreographed to the most minute detail sometimes involving thousands of extras hired to help act out their awe-inspiring narratives. Its no surprise that the founder used to work as a fixer for a wealthy superyacht owner. An adventure organised by his company can involve anything from running with dog-sleds on a frozen Arctic lake, to a family fantasy pursuing mythical creatures through Greece; or witnessing the enactment of ancient sacrifices by an Indonesian hilltop tribe. At the end of each trip, guests get a beautiful leather-bound book chronicling their experience.

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Its no surprise that charter clients who have grown tired of their regular haunts are gearing up for these thrilling experiences. Robba recalls a trip to an island east of Flores in the Mergui archipelago. Its so remote, he says, We never saw another yacht. One day, we took the RIB out to a secluded bay and there were thousands of dolphins, it was unreal. Being in these places where nature is so untouched leads to wonderful experiences. No wonder five-star travel is taking to the water.

TIARA This beautiful 54m sailing yacht designed with anelegant art deco flavour, features an open-aircinema, jacuzzi and a tender garage bursting withwatersports toys for starters. Theres room for 10guests, and an equal number of crew (including akitesurfing instructor), ensuring the highest levels ofservice. An on-deck DJ set-up is ready and waitingto get the party started. From 180,000(HK$1,468,260) per week availablefor charter through Y.Co

KINGS LEGEND

At just under 20m, this sailing yacht is on the small side with room for justsix guests and two crew. Yachties will love her for her rich history, most notably her participation in the 1977 Whitbread Round the World Race where she placed second. Its worth noting that the price is all-inclusive, an unusual bonus on a charter yacht. 13,200 (HK$107,672) per week available for charter through Northrop and Johnson

MIA KAI This immaculate 29m motoryacht was refurbishedin 2015, and shes looking beautiful inside and out,with room for eight guests in four luxury cabins. Thecrew of six (including a stand-out Thai chef) are onhand to ensure guest are well looked after and a wellstockedtoy garage including jet skis, kayaks,wakeboards and paddelboards promises plenty offun in the water. From US$11,667(HK$90,568) per week - available forcharter through Northrop and Johnson.

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From watching humpback whales cavorting in the water to gazing at a night sky shimmering with stars, the Republic of Singapore Navy will be sharing tales on the high seas with the young through its first series of children's books.

Ahoy, Navy! is the name of the collection of four titles published to mark the navy's 50th anniversary.

Children can listen to the first two books - Papa Goes To Sea, and Indy! Indy! Indy! - being read aloud by navy personnel at various public libraries, including those in Bishan and Tampines, from this Saturday to June 3.

The other two books will be out later this year.

There are also plans for every person in the navy to have a full set of the books, so that navy parents can explain their work to their children.

One of the storytellers, Major Lim Woon Huat, 42, said: "Usually, I can't really disclose too much, and (my children) will ask when I'm coming back."

The father of four young boys has served in the navy for about 20 years.

The first two books are written by Major Winnie Tan, 30, and are targeted at children between four and eight years old.

An external author and illustrator were initially supposed to produce the books.

When none of their stories resonated with the navy, Major Tan took on the task instead.

"We realised that the navy needed to tell its own story, so we started looking internally to see who could write," she said.

To register for the free readings, go to http://www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary

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YOUVE HEARD THIS one before: The Earth is complex and constantly changing, so how can scientists possibly know that burning fossil fuels will do so much harm to the planet? This argument has never been persuasive. It is no mystery that adding heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere will trap more heat. That some uncertainties remain does not necessarily favor the doubters: Things could be worse than expected not just better.

Two new papers on how meltwater flows on the surface of Antarcticas vast icy expanse drive this essential point home. There is an astonishing amount of water frozen on top of the southern continent, hemmed in by floating ice shelves abutting the Antarctic land mass. For now, that is: A major ice shelf disintegrated in 2002, and scientists just reported an ominous new crack in another close by. Losing ice shelves encourages the ice further back to melt and drain into the ocean, raising the seas to dangerous levels. A major threat to these ice shelves is meltwater that pools on the surface, widening cracks and encouraging them to break up. Scientists have known about this threat for years, yet they still do not know much about Antarcticas plumbing.

A team from Columbia University and the University of Sheffield that examined decades of satellite monitoring and aerial photographs found vast networks of meltwater-fed streams and lakes across Antarctica. The streams can flow for up to 75 miles before reaching melt ponds or the sea. Melt ponds, meanwhile, can be massive up to 50 miles long. If this system delivers increasing amounts of water to the wrong parts of delicate ice shelves, it could severely damage them.

As the temperature rises, more meltwater will flow into this hydrological system, and the scientists warn that the region might enter a devastating feedback loop. As more ice melts around the continent, more rocks and other nonwhite features of the landscape are exposed. These darker features absorb more of the suns heat. This encourages melting. The resulting meltwater could then encourage ice shelves to decline, which could encourage further thinning farther back on the continent, and therefore further exposure of heat-absorbing rocks.

Even so, it is not clear every ice shelf is in critical danger. In another paper, the scientists discussed a drainage system in one part of Antarctica that diverted meltwater directly into the ocean, apparently without undermining sensitive parts of the ice shelf over which it flowed. Rather than undermining the stability of the ice, the flow appears to be bolstering it.

It will take years more research for scientists to better account for Antarctic meltwater in climate models. But it would be foolhardy to assume that it will all harmlessly drain into the ocean. Better to take the warning: Dramatically higher sea levels may come sooner than we think.

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Some sailors of tomorrow will never have to get their sea legs.

These sailors will be seated in office buildings on land, hundreds of miles from their ship, which wont have any humans on board. Automation is storming the transportation sector, eliminating some jobs and turning others into desk jobs.

Sailors, pilots and drivers are slowly shifting from the high seas, blue skies and open roads to staid office buildings where they monitor vessels from afar.

The shift will improve efficiency, decrease costs and improve worker safety. Its hard to injure oneself in a cubicle. And the environment will benefit from fewer fossil fuels being burned.

Last week, a Norwegian company announced plans to build an autonomous, zero emissions cargo ship. The 75-meter ship will launch in late 2018 as a manned vessel, but be capable of full autonomy by 2020. It will transport fertilizer to larger ports.

Because the ships wont have crews, they wont need cabins sewage systems or a mess hall. Ships will be smaller and lighter, saving on costs, according to Peter Due, a project manager at Kongsberg, which is launching the ship. With no crew on board, theres also no one for pirates to take hostage.

The sailors for Dues automated vessel will monitor it from land. Due described how the sailors would work eight-hour shifts and then go home to their families for dinner. Life would be more typical (unless they have the night shift).

Due doesnt expect all ships to become unmanned. The larger the boat, the less a crew contributes to the overall cost of operating the ship. So automating a massive container ship, for example, would have less appeal.

But a big potential market is tugboats. According to Oskar Levander, the Rolls-Royce vice president of marine innovation, 50%-70% of the operating cost of a tugboat is its crew. The company is developing technology for remote-controlled ships.

Sea Machines CEO Michael Johnson said making harbor tugboats autonomous is the holy grail. Tugboat work can be dangerous. And boating accidents are generally due to human error, making automation appealing.

For now, the Boston startup is working on automating one boat trailing another. Its useful for cleaning up oil spills, or whenever boats work in tandem. Johnson is also interested in autonomous security vessels, to provides eyes and ears on waterways.

Johnson started thinking about automating boats after watching tugboats travel from Seattle to Alaska for the sole task of pulling a barge into a harbor. Wasnt there a better way?

Starsky Robotics, meanwhile, is on the forefront of making long-haul truck driving an office job.

Its developed technology to make trucks self-driving on highways. The cabs will be empty. Drivers located in offices across the U.S. will remotely control the trucks from highway ramps to distribution centers, and vice versa. The trucks will handle the easy part of driving highways while the humans will take over on the more challenging local roads.

These drivers will be in control for 10-30 minute durations, allowing them to pilot 10 times as many trucks as usual. In the future, drivers are going to have to make a lot less sacrifices, said Starsky Robotics CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher. It starts to be a job where theres a water cooler, where people can talk to their buddies at work and use the bathroom and be afforded the decencies that white collar Americans take for granted.

The drivers will need to always be within 1,000 miles of the truck theyre controlling, so that the connection between the trucks and drivers is fast enough.

Trucks arent the only place where we may see remote operators.

Googles (GOOGL, Tech30) Waymo, the leader in self-driving car software, has a patent for remote operators to assist self-driving cars. Humans in command centers would provide advice on how self-driving vehicles should navigate tricky situations, such as right turns on red. And at CES in January, Nissan demonstrated how a car in Silicon Valley could be remotely piloted from a stage in Las Vegas.

A similar script may play out in the skies. Large jets have already shifted from three pilots to two. Some military pilots now sit in trailers in the Nevada dessert, flying huge drones in places such as Afghanistan. Theres talk of fully automating cargo flights. The largest barriers arent technology, but regulation and societal acceptance. Commercial pilots already leave most of the task of flying to autopilot systems. One question is whether existing workers will want the new jobs that are created. Theyll have to be digitally savvy, and comfortable with computer screens and using software. The transition may prove challenging for older workers. Ultimately, some workers may have no choice but to adapt or become irrelevant. Source: CNN Money

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Goodbye high seas, hello cubicle. Sailor the next desk job - Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide

Published May 21, 2017, 8:00 PM

By Reuters

A dozen ships from the Swiss high seas fleet are being sold off as the global shipping crisis takes its toll on the quirky remnant of landlocked Switzerlands efforts to ensure supplies of essential goods at times of international unrest.

Worried about the security of food and energy supplies during wartime, Switzerland launched its high seas fleet in 1941, putting Swiss flags on tankers and freighters it could call on at times of need.

But as times changed and supply routes became more stable, Switzerland has limited its support since 1959 to debt guarantees for shipping lines able to reduce borrowing costs in return for pledges to make ships available if Bern needed them.

Switzerland decided last year to end the debt guarantees from mid-2017, fearing the financial exposure it faced as shipping lines struggle with overcapacity.

It asked parliament this week to earmark 215 million Swiss francs ($220 million) for potential losses on the 770 million francs of outstanding guarantees.

The government has been trying since last year to help SCL Reedereien AG and Swiss Chem Tankers AG to sell 12 vessels, even at a heavy loss.

This week binding sales contracts were signed in respect of the ships owned by SCL and SCT, and the sales should be completed within three months, the government said without naming the buyer.

SCL and SCT said in a separate statement that they would no longer have Swiss-flagged vessels after the sale of eight freighters and four chemical tankers.

The General Guisan, for decades the 49-vessel fleets flagship, was sold to Chinese buyers in March.

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These sailors will be seated in office buildings on land, hundreds of miles from their ship, which won't have any humans on board.

Automation is storming the transportation sector, eliminating some jobs and turning others into desk jobs.

Sailors, pilots and drivers are slowly shifting from the high seas, blue skies and open roads to staid office buildings where they monitor vessels from afar.

The shift will improve efficiency, decrease costs and improve worker safety. It's hard to injure oneself in a cubicle. And the environment will benefit from fewer fossil fuels being burned.

Last week, a Norwegian company announced plans to build an autonomous, zero emissions cargo ship. The 75-meter ship will launch in late 2018 as a manned vessel, but be capable of full autonomy by 2020. It will transport fertilizer to larger ports.

Because the ships won't have crews, they won't need cabins sewage systems or a mess hall. Ships will be smaller and lighter, saving on costs, according to Peter Due, a project manager at Kongsberg, which is launching the ship. With no crew on board, there's also no one for pirates to take hostage.

The sailors for Due's automated vessel will monitor it from land. Due described how the sailors would work eight-hour shifts and then go home to their families for dinner. Life would be more typical (unless they have the night shift).

Related: How automation contributed to the rise of populism and Trump

Due doesn't expect all ships to become unmanned. The larger the boat, the less a crew contributes to the overall cost of operating the ship. So automating a massive container ship, for example, would have less appeal.

But a big potential market is tugboats. According to Oskar Levander, the Rolls-Royce vice president of marine innovation, 50%-70% of the operating cost of a tugboat is its crew. The company is developing technology for remote-controlled ships.

Sea Machines CEO Michael Johnson said making harbor tugboats autonomous is the holy grail. Tugboat work can be dangerous. And boating accidents are generally due to human error, making automation appealing.

For now, the Boston startup is working on automating one boat trailing another. It's useful for cleaning up oil spills, or whenever boats work in tandem. Johnson is also interested in autonomous security vessels, to provides eyes and ears on waterways.

Johnson started thinking about automating boats after watching tugboats travel from Seattle to Alaska for the sole task of pulling a barge into a harbor. Wasn't there a better way?

Starsky Robotics, meanwhile, is on the forefront of making long-haul truck driving an office job.

It's developed technology to make trucks self-driving on highways. The cabs will be empty. Drivers located in offices across the U.S. will remotely control the trucks from highway ramps to distribution centers, and vice versa. The trucks will handle the easy part of driving -- highways -- while the humans will take over on the more challenging local roads.

These drivers will be in control for 10-30 minute durations, allowing them to pilot 10 times as many trucks as usual.

"In the future, drivers are going to have to make a lot less sacrifices," said Starsky Robotics CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher. "It starts to be a job where there's a water cooler, where people can talk to their buddies at work and use the bathroom and be afforded the decencies that white collar Americans take for granted."

The drivers will need to always be within 1,000 miles of the truck they're controlling, so that the connection between the trucks and drivers is fast enough.

Related: Is Uber's push for self-driving cars a job killer?

Trucks aren't the only place where we may see remote operators.

Google's (GOOGL, Tech30) Waymo, the leader in self-driving car software, has a patent for remote operators to assist self-driving cars. Humans in command centers would provide advice on how self-driving vehicles should navigate tricky situations, such as right turns on red. And at CES in January, Nissan demonstrated how a car in Silicon Valley could be remotely piloted from a stage in Las Vegas.

A similar script may play out in the skies. Large jets have already shifted from three pilots to two. Some military pilots now sit in trailers in the Nevada dessert, flying huge drones in places such as Afghanistan. There's talk of fully automating cargo flights. The largest barriers aren't technology, but regulation and societal acceptance. Commercial pilots already leave most of the task of flying to autopilot systems.

One question is whether existing workers will want the new jobs that are created. They'll have to be digitally savvy, and comfortable with computer screens and using software. The transition may prove challenging for older workers.

Ultimately, some workers may have no choice but to adapt or become irrelevant.

CNNMoney (Washington) First published May 19, 2017: 10:41 AM ET

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F. Earl Christy, design for a poster for the White Star Line and Moet & Chandon, about 1912.

I was riveted by the idea that the most opulent hotel spaces one could conceive of were actually created to float on the sea, said Dan Finamore, the Peabody Essex Museum s curator of maritime art and history. Thats really where this exhibit began.

The Peabody Essex maintains an extensive collection of historic maritime technology, but Finamore said there had been little focus on the cultural impact of luxury ocean liners. As he started looking at photographs of the interiors of these grand dames of the ocean, specifically from the mid-19th to the late 20th century, he realized that he had the beginnings of a swanky exhibition. The result of that idea and subsequent research is Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed and Style. It debuts in Salem this weekend, and runs through Oct. 9.

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No one had ever really focused on ocean liners as a means of conveying and communicating design ideas, and cultural values, he said. On top of that, theres the whole promotional side of ocean liners.

The PEM exhibition features nearly 200 works such as paintings, sculpture, models, furniture, lighting, wall panels, textiles, fashion, photographs, posters, and film.

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Finamore teamed with a curator from Londons Victoria and Albert Museum to create the show, which it is billing as the first of its kind. After its debut at PEM, the show moves to the Victoria and Albert in 2018. We chatted with Finamore about the gilded age of these floating hotels, and what it was like aboard cruise ships before norovirus and waterslides.

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Q. At what point did ships start evolving from mere transportation to a posh way to vacation?

A. It was a very long, gradual, transition. From the earliest years these ships were really just viewed as just a means of conveyance for those who had to travel. Over the course of time, immigration is reduced and they replaced that with a tourist class, so more people are traveling in optional ways. That just ratchets up the competition. You dont have to travel so they need to entice you to travel. The diversity of activity areas really kicks in around the 1930s when youve got a number of different ships that are essentially evoking a nations values. The Queen Mary is like an English country house at sea.

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Soon they try to anticipate every single demand that they think the clients will want. Eventually the destination because almost immaterial.

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Kenneth Shoesmith, Cunard Line, Europe, America, 1929, color lithograph.

Q. Was there a decade in the 20th century when the design of ocean liners reached its zenith?

A. I would say that the people have very special affinity for the 1930s because of the Queen Mary and the Normandie. But before World War I there were fabulous Beaux-Arts style boats. It was the floating palaces era. You had the Mauretania, the Titanic, and the Aquitania.

Theres also the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and all the German ships which were really over-the-top. They were palatial. They had Renaissance revival interiors or Palladian interiors. You might walk from one room to the next and youve gone from Versailles to a medieval castle.

Ive also learned over the course of the project is that the 1950s were a pretty good time in ocean liner design as well. And that is where you see a rise in the Italian and American ships.

Q. People often think of the Titanic when they think of the glamour and glitz of these ships. Did the sinking of the Titanic dampen enthusiasm for cruising?

A. Thats an interesting question. I havent seen any firm documentation that shows that people stopped traveling. It was still the heyday. The things that stopped people from traveling, of course, were things like the Lusitania. People took trips on the Lusitania when the Germans had already announced they were looking to sink an ocean liner.

The Titanic was really shocking in its day. Then there were investigations, and they kept going with the marketing statements that we fixed it, and everything will be OK now. People always want the biggest, best, latest, and greatest. Thats what the Titanic represented. We still see that today with massive cruise ships that are introduced every year. It was just a different kind of excess 100 years ago.

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ZURICH A dozen ships from the Swiss high seas fleet are being sold off as the global shipping crisis takes its toll on the quirky remnant of landlocked Switzerland's efforts to ensure supplies of essential goods at times of international unrest.

Worried about the security of food and energy supplies during wartime, Switzerland launched its high seas fleet in 1941, putting Swiss flags on tankers and freighters it could call on at times of need.

But as times changed and supply routes became more stable, Switzerland has limited its support since 1959 to debt guarantees for shipping lines able to reduce borrowing costs in return for pledges to make ships available if Bern needed them.

Switzerland decided last year to end the debt guarantees from mid-2017, fearing the financial exposure it faced as shipping lines struggle with overcapacity.

It asked parliament this week to earmark 215 million Swiss francs ($220 million) for potential losses on the 770 million francs of outstanding guarantees.

The government has been trying since last year to help SCL Reedereien AG and Swiss Chem Tankers AG to sell 12 vessels, even at a heavy loss.

"This week binding sales contracts were signed in respect of the ships owned by SCL and SCT, and the sales should be completed within three months," the government said without naming the buyer.

SCL and SCT said in a separate statement that they would no longer have Swiss-flagged vessels after the sale of eight freighters and four chemical tankers.

The General Guisan, for decades the 49-vessel fleet's flagship, was sold to Chinese buyers in March.

(Reporting by Michael Shields; Editing by David Goodman)

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Thursday assailed the Justice Department's appointment of a special counsel to investigate possible ties between his 2016 presidential campaign and Russia, calling it "the single greatest witch hunt" in U.S. history.

PARIS, May 18 A parliamentary majority looks to be within reach for centrist French President Emmanuel Macron in next month's parliamentary election, opinion polls indicated on Thursday, as his cross-partisan government held its first meeting.

PARIS, May 18 A parliamentary majority looks to be within reach for centrist French President Emmanuel Macron in next month's parliamentary election, opinion polls indicated on Thursday, as his cross-partisan government held its first meeting.

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BACK HOME IN TOBAGO: Turnell and Thotlyn Woods at their shop in the Scarborough market yesterday. Photo: ELIZABETH WILLIAMS

ON Carnival Sunday, a Tobago couple left Scarborough on a fishing trip on board their boat Why Worry Man Must Live 2. They got lost and after their boat battery died, they drifted in the Caribbean Sea for 16 days. They prayed fervently day and night as they braved the turbulent sea. Today, Turnell Joseph Woods, 47, and Sylvia Thotlyn Woods, 50, are giving thanks that they were spotted by a Costa Rican aircraft, rescued by the Bonaire coast guard and kept for weeks by the government of Bonaire before a private Trinidad company towed their vessel back home last week.

Speaking to the Express by phone yesterday from Tobago, Sylvia Thotlyn Woods said she did not think it would be 74 days before she would see her home at Moriah Woodlands, Tobago.

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