“It doesn’t wow me a bit,” said Nicole Greenidge, the moth­er of de­ceased div­er Yusuf Hen­ry, short­ly af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s an­nounce­ment of a $1 mil­lion ex-gra­tia pay­ment to fam­i­lies of the four de­ceased Land and Ma­rine Con­tract­ing Ser­vices Ltd (LM­CS) divers in­volved in the Paria Div­ing Tragedy and the lone sur­vivor Christo­pher Boodram.

In an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia hours af­ter Young’s an­nounce­ment, Greenidge ques­tioned the tim­ing of the pay­ment, say­ing she be­lieved they were mo­ti­vat­ed by the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.

“I have mixed emo­tions to be hon­est, be­cause af­ter three years, so much time have gone. I think that state­ment is re­al­ly com­ing out now be­cause the elec­tion is in the air. To be hon­est, I don’t even know how to feel about it be­cause we have been get­ting by for three years,” Greenidge said.