Attorney Prakash Ramadhar has written to the prime minister calling for the $1 million ex-gratia payments to families of the deceased divers and the lone surviving diver from the Paria tragedy, to be made by April 14.

On February 25, 2022, Christopher Boodram together with co-workers Kazim Ali Jr, Fyzal Kurban, Yusuf Henry and Rishi Nagassar, were repairing a 30-inch pipeline at Paria's Pointe-a-Pierre facility when they were sucked into it. Only Boodram survived.

Ramadhar, who represents the Kurban and Henry families, said he wrote to the PM on April 8 on behalf of his clients. He was speaking to reporters at his office in Curepe.