FOUR months and a general election have passed since a payment of $1 million in compensation was promised to the families of divers who lost their lives trapped inside a Paria Fuel Trading Company pipeline on February 25, 2022.

The promise was made by then-prime minister and minister of energy Stuart Young days before the April 28 general election that unseated him. To date, relatives and lone survivor Christopher Boodram say the payment has yet to materialise.

'That was just a gimmick and playing on our emotions and our feelings. It was a bad joke,' Boodram told the Express in an interview yesterday.