TOO MANY QUESTIONS - NOT ENOUGH ANSWERS

The news about a ship full of oil being wrecked off the East coast of Tobago raises more questions than answers. For example, take a look at some of the questions that need to be asked and haven't been answered:

1) Who is the owner  or owners of the ship?

2) If it is a company who are the shareholders, i.e., the actual individuals? I ask this because a company can be owned by another company and so on, but ultimately there has to be a group of persons or a single person who owns the company that owns the ship.

3) Did the oil come from Trinidad? It should be easy to check this. After all, how many ports are there in Trinidad that can load up a ship with oil?

4) Where was the ship going? 

5) Who was buying the oil? Again, if it was a company the same subsidiary questions as in (2) above apply.

6) Did the oil come from Venezuela? If so was this an attempt to evade American oversight? And if so, was anybody in Trinidad complicit in this?

7) There were some reports that about 14 seamen were found dead in Tobago waters. Was this report true? Because this particular aspect seems to have disappeared from the narrative. Assuming (though not accepting) that it was true, did these dead seamen come from the ship?

8) Assuming that the report was not true, where are the crew members and the Captain? They seem to have simply vanished.

9) A ship of this size is worth a lot of money as is the oil that it was carrying. Together I 'guesstimate' that some where in the region of US$10 million (if not more) has been lost. Who lost this money?

10) How did this ship get wrecked? There were no storms off Tobago - no unusual weather. So? What exactly happened?

11) How could this ship get itself wrecked without the coast guard being aware of that?

12) Can a boat or ship pass through our waters without being detected? If so, didn't we spend a lot of money to prevent this from happening? And if it was detected by the national security people, do they know where the ship came from or where was its last port of call? If they don't know, then why don't they know?

13) I've asked this already in a slightly different way: did the voyage that ended in disaster start in Trinidad? If so, are there any records in Trinidad listing the names of the captain and crew as well as who the owner(s) is/are?

14) who insured the ship? Who insured the cargo? What  amounts was the insurance for?

15) What type of person(s), firm(s) or corporation(s) can afford a loss like this and everybody just keeps quiet about it?

16) What was the name of the ship? And where was it registered?

17) Does or did Venezuela have anything to do with this?

18) was this a drug deal gone wrong?

I could easily go on, but hopefully you get the point. There are too many unanswered questions and the longer that they remain unanswered  the more that ugly suspicions will arise, which suspicions ought to be totally unnecessary.