For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan, SC, has praised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for of­fer­ing to get me­di­a­tors to deal with the is­sue of com­pen­sa­tion for fam­i­lies of the de­ceased divers and the lone sur­vivor in­volved in the Paria Fu­el div­ing tragedy.

Dur­ing Thurs­day’s post-Cab­i­net me­dia brief­ing, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said Gov­ern­ment was look­ing in­to en­sur­ing those in­volved re­ceived the $1 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion which for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young had promised just be­fore the Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

“We’re look­ing at it to see how best we can do it, but there’s a bit of a com­pli­ca­tion which I’d need fur­ther ad­vice on from the lawyers for the state, which rep­re­sents tax­pay­ers,” she said.