A new deadline is being sought for the submission of the final report into the Paria diving tragedy, which took place last February.
The Commission of Enquiry (CoE) into the fatal diving accident at Paria Fuel Trading Co Ltd in Pointe-a-Pierre, is requesting the new deadline of November 30th to submit its final report.
This has become necessary as the commission was unable to meet its previous deadline of August 31st.
The commission has written to President Christine Kangaloo to ask for an extension until November 30.
The commission will hold a virtual news conference in the first week in September. At that briefing, CoE chairman Jerome Lynch, KC, will address any questions arising from this development.
Divers Rishi Nagassar, Kazim Ali Jr, Fyzal Kurban, Yusuf Henry and Christopher Boodram were doing maintenance work on a 30-inch underwater pipeline belonging to Paria on February 25th, 2022, when they were suddenly sucked into the pipeline. Only Boodram survived.
The CoE was originally due to submit its final report to the President in May, but later wrote to Kangaloo seeking an extension of August 31st.