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The Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Au­thor­i­ty (OSH Au­thor­i­ty) is no clos­er to know­ing the fate of its par­al­lel pros­e­cu­tions against Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny and Land and Ma­rine Con­tract­ing Ser­vices Ltd (LM­CS) over an in­ci­dent at Paria’s Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty, which claimed the lives of four divers in 2022.

Deputy Chief Mag­is­trate Bri­an Dabideen was ex­pect­ed to de­liv­er a rul­ing on the im­pact of a land­mark Privy Coun­cil judg­ment over the time lim­it for ini­ti­at­ing such pros­e­cu­tions when the case came up for hear­ing yes­ter­day.

How­ev­er, he was forced to ad­journ the case to give the par­ties more time to file writ­ten le­gal sub­mis­sions on the is­sue.