‘Their families have lost their loved ones, their breadwinners, their fathers, their husbands and we just cannot take this anymore.’
By Neil Gosine
Christopher Boodram was the only diver to get out of the pipeline on Friday 25, 2022.
Boodram is now in the San Fernando General Hospital in stable condition, however, he really thought he was going to die.
Four of the divers who were sucked into the pipeline on Friday died in there, the Paria chairman confirmed.
Initially, we got no information from the chairman of the board of the company. No information from the Minister of Energy or from the Minister of National Security. Minister Stuart Young eventually held a press conference that didn’t make much sense but just was designed to show his administration and the company had done everything possible in their opinion. It was really to deflect any negligence on the part of the company Paria and his administration. The incompetence witnessed here is unprecedented as lives were at stake.
This is unacceptable and many citizens watched in horror while the inevitable news came of the deaths of the four underwater divers. It is just a travesty and words cannot explain what the families are going through at this point. I just have no more words.
It’s so horrible and terrible and the call by the opposition must be echoed for an independent investigation on Paria‘s professional safety procedures and even a police investigation into exactly how this occurred. To prevent a tragedy like this in the future it is paramount. I hope we really get to the bottom of why these divers were left in the pipeline for such a long time, to run out of air and suffocate in such an inhumane manner and to die in such a heartbreaking way.
All I have to say is that such unqualified persons are the persons this administration continues to promote to positions of power that hold people’s lives in their hands where they continue to let us down constantly.
This one is the most hurtful, heartless one I have ever seen. The Minister of Energy is supposed to be one of the best ministers in the PNM administration and the PM himself has full confidence in his abilities.
However, when people’s lives are left in the balance like this and the decision was not to assist, men like these have no place in the management of this country’s affairs at crucial times.
The information on why a rescue was not launched in time is not forthcoming at this time, however, we continue to see one travesty after travesty and in this case that decision caused four hard-working men to die.
Their families have lost their loved ones, their breadwinners, their fathers, their husbands and we just cannot take this anymore.
We must reject this inaction of the administration strongly in this case and ask for an independent report on what really occurred as darkness continues to consume our islands.
How can we standby and accept this one from this state company?
Neil Gosine is an insurance executive, the North East Regional Coordinator of the United National Congress and a former chairman of the National Petroleum Marketing Company of Trinidad and Tobago. He also holds a Master in Business Administration. The comments and opinions expressed by him in this column are not necessarily those of AZPNews.com, a division of Complete Image Limited.
Paria Tragedy: I Have No More Words
‘Their families have lost their loved ones, their breadwinners, their fathers, their husbands and we just cannot take this anymore.’
Christopher Boodram was the only diver to get out of the pipeline on Friday 25, 2022.
Boodram is now in the San Fernando General Hospital in stable condition, however, he really thought he was going to die.
Four of the divers who were sucked into the pipeline on Friday died in there, the Paria chairman confirmed.
Initially, we got no information from the chairman of the board of the company. No information from the Minister of Energy or from the Minister of National Security. Minister Stuart Young eventually held a press conference that didn’t make much sense but just was designed to show his administration and the company had done everything possible in their opinion. It was really to deflect any negligence on the part of the company Paria and his administration. The incompetence witnessed here is unprecedented as lives were at stake.
This is unacceptable and many citizens watched in horror while the inevitable news came of the deaths of the four underwater divers. It is just a travesty and words cannot explain what the families are going through at this point. I just have no more words.
It’s so horrible and terrible and the call by the opposition must be echoed for an independent investigation on Paria‘s professional safety procedures and even a police investigation into exactly how this occurred. To prevent a tragedy like this in the future it is paramount. I hope we really get to the bottom of why these divers were left in the pipeline for such a long time, to run out of air and suffocate in such an inhumane manner and to die in such a heartbreaking way.
All I have to say is that such unqualified persons are the persons this administration continues to promote to positions of power that hold people’s lives in their hands where they continue to let us down constantly.
This one is the most hurtful, heartless one I have ever seen. The Minister of Energy is supposed to be one of the best ministers in the PNM administration and the PM himself has full confidence in his abilities.
However, when people’s lives are left in the balance like this and the decision was not to assist, men like these have no place in the management of this country’s affairs at crucial times.
The information on why a rescue was not launched in time is not forthcoming at this time, however, we continue to see one travesty after travesty and in this case that decision caused four hard-working men to die.
Their families have lost their loved ones, their breadwinners, their fathers, their husbands and we just cannot take this anymore.
We must reject this inaction of the administration strongly in this case and ask for an independent report on what really occurred as darkness continues to consume our islands.
How can we standby and accept this one from this state company?
Neil Gosine is an insurance executive, the North East Regional Coordinator of the United National Congress and a former chairman of the National Petroleum Marketing Company of Trinidad and Tobago. He also holds a Master in Business Administration. The comments and opinions expressed by him in this column are not necessarily those of AZPNews.com, a division of Complete Image Limited.