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Thursday, February 27, 2025

Tiah withdraws from team probing Paria diving accident

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Eugene Tiah.

Eugene Tiah.

SHAR­LENE RAM­PER­SAD

 

Eu­gene Tiah, the En­er­gy Cham­ber's rec­om­mend­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tive on the In­ves­tiga­tive Com­mit­tee in­to the trag­ic Paria in­ci­dent where four divers lost their lives on Feb­ru­ary 25, has with­drawn from the Com­mit­tee.

In a per­son­al state­ment is­sued short­ly be­fore noon on Tues­day, Tiah said he joins with the na­tion in ex­tend­ing con­do­lences to the fam­i­lies of Kaz­im Ali Ju­nior, Fyzal Kur­ban, Yusuf Hen­ry and Rishi Na­gas­sar.

"I was asked by the En­er­gy Cham­ber to be their rep­re­sen­ta­tive on the In­ves­ti­ga­tion Com­mit­tee to com­mit 45 days gratis, and to bring to bear my 40 years of tech­ni­cal and man­age­r­i­al ex­pe­ri­ence in the en­er­gy in­dus­try with par­tic­u­lar in­ter­est in safe­ty and process safe­ty lead­er­ship, which I agreed to do," Tiah wrote.

He said he be­lieves no time should be lost in de­ter­min­ing the facts that led to this tragedy.

"Rec­om­men­da­tions aris­ing from the In­ci­dent In­ves­ti­ga­tion need to be swift­ly im­ple­ment­ed and lessons learned shared through­out the in­dus­try."

Tiah al­so ad­dressed chal­lenges from Op­po­si­tion leader, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for his ap­point­ment to the Com­mit­tee.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar had de­scribed his nom­i­na­tion as "scan­dalous" based on his pre­vi­ous lawyer/client re­la­tion­ship with En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young in 2014.

"It ap­pears that the good of coun­try is sub­servient to the shenani­gans of a few. I have thus tak­en the de­ci­sion to with­draw from the In­ves­ti­gat­ing Com­mit­tee. I wish the Com­mit­tee Mem­bers God­speed with this oner­ous and supreme­ly im­por­tant task," Tiah wrote.

The fol­low­ing is the full text of the Per­son­al State­ment is­sued by Mr Tiah con­cern­ing the Paria In­ci­dent…

 

I wish to join with the na­tion in ex­tend­ing sin­cer­est con­do­lences to the griev­ing fam­i­ly mem­bers of Kaz­im Ali (Jr.), Fyzul Kur­ban, Yusuf Hen­ry and Rishi Na­gas­sar.

I was asked by the En­er­gy Cham­ber to be their rep­re­sen­ta­tive on the In­ves­ti­ga­tion Com­mit­tee to com­mit 45 days gratis, and to bring to bear my 40 years of tech­ni­cal and man­age­r­i­al ex­pe­ri­ence in the en­er­gy in­dus­try with par­tic­u­lar in­ter­est in safe­ty and process safe­ty lead­er­ship, which I agreed to do.

I be­lieve that no time should be lost in as­cer­tain­ing the facts that led to this tragedy. Rec­om­men­da­tions aris­ing from the In­ci­dent In­ves­ti­ga­tion need to be swift­ly im­ple­ment­ed and lessons learned shared through­out the in­dus­try.

It ap­pears that the good of coun­try is sub­servient to the shenani­gans of a few. I have thus tak­en the de­ci­sion to with­draw from the In­ves­ti­gat­ing Com­mit­tee.

I wish the Com­mit­tee Mem­bers God­speed with this oner­ous and supreme­ly im­por­tant task.


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