State-owned Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed con­tin­ues to refuse to dis­close de­tails of the in­di­vid­ual fees paid to its at­tor­neys for the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry (CoE) in­to an in­ci­dent at its Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty that claimed the lives of four divers in 2022.

Late last year, for­mer Petrotrin em­ploy­ee and Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) mem­ber An­tho­ny Dop­son made a dis­clo­sure re­quest for in­for­ma­tion on Paria’s le­gal fees un­der the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA).

Dop­son, through his lawyers led by Anand Ram­lo­gan, SC, of Free­dom Law Cham­bers, was forced to make a more spe­cif­ic fol­low-up re­quest, af­ter Paria was on­ly will­ing to re­veal that it had ex­pend­ed $8,951,753 on le­gal fees for the CoE.