The at­tor­ney rep­re­sent­ing the fam­i­ly of one of the men who died af­ter be­ing sucked in­to a 30-inch pipeline back in Feb­ru­ary is prepar­ing for the pro­ce­dur­al hear­ings which are set to be­gin in less than two weeks.

The first pro­ce­dur­al hear­ing of the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry in­to the cir­cum­stances lead­ing to and sur­round­ing the deaths of four divers on Feb­ru­ary 25 at Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed in Pointe-a-Pierre is sched­uled to take place be­tween Sep­tem­ber 7 and Sep­tem­ber 8.

This was dis­closed via a me­dia re­lease signed by rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry in­to this in­ci­dent, in­clud­ing its chair­man Jerome Lynch QC and com­mis­sion­er Gre­go­ry Wil­son.

The pro­ce­dur­al hear­ing is ex­pect­ed to take place at Lev­el 11, Tow­er D, In­ter­na­tion­al Wa­ter­front Cen­tre, 1A Wright­son Road, Port-of-Spain.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic are re­mind­ed that the com­mis­sion’s Pro­ce­dur­al Rules can be ac­cessed on the com­mis­sion’s web­site www.coe2022.com.

The com­mis­sion was set up to in­ves­ti­gate the Feb­ru­ary 25 in­ci­dent that led to the deaths of four of the five LM­CS Ltd divers who were con­tract­ed by the State-owned Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny Ltd to do un­der­wa­ter main­te­nance on a sea pipe.

The divers—Fyzal Kur­ban, Rishi Na­gas­sar, Yusuf Hen­ry and Kaz­im Ali Jnr— died af­ter be­ing sucked in­to a 32-inch un­der­wa­ter pipeline.

Rep­re­sent­ing at­tor­ney for LM­CS and the fam­i­ly of one of the vic­tims Kaz­im Ali Jr, Ger­ald Ramdeen con­firmed on Sun­day that the email was on­ly sent out to all par­ties last week and he on­ly saw it on Fri­day.

Ramdeen, who is cur­rent­ly re­cov­er­ing from the flu, said he is yet to fi­nalise his part in prepa­ra­tion for the up­com­ing first pro­ce­dur­al hear­ing and would be able to com­ment fur­ther on it up­on his re­sump­tion of du­ties lat­er this week.