Derek Achong

With the four-year an­niver­sary of a ma­jor div­ing tragedy at Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny’s Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty ap­proach­ing, the fam­i­lies of three of the four vic­tims and the lone sur­vivor, Christo­pher Boodram, ap­pear no clos­er to re­ceiv­ing com­pen­sa­tion.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that neg­li­gence law­suits, filed on be­half of Boodram and the rel­a­tives of his de­ceased col­league Rishi Na­gas­sar against Paria and their for­mer em­ploy­er, Land and Ma­rine Con­tract­ing Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (LM­CS), came up for hear­ing be­fore Jus­tice Christo­pher Sieuc­hand on Mon­day.