The gov­ern­ment has con­firmed that the re­port on the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry in­to the Paria Fu­el Div­ing Tragedy has been sent to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions.

The move fol­lowed re­peat­ed calls for those who may have had a hand in the fa­tal in­ci­dent to face the full brunt of the law.

In the Par­lia­ment to­day the 380-page re­port pro­duced by Kings Coun­sel Jerome Lynch, who chaired the CoE in­to the Paria pipeline tragedy which oc­curred on Feb­ru­ary 26, 2022, was laid.

One of the ma­jor rec­om­men­da­tions in the re­ports is for the State-owned Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny to be in­ves­ti­gat­ed for manslaugh­ter,

It said there is a case for crim­i­nal neg­li­gence.

“We rec­om­mend to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions that on the ev­i­dence be­fore this tri­bunal, we find that there are suf­fi­cient grounds to con­clude that Paria’s neg­li­gence could be char­ac­ter­ized as gross neg­li­gence and con­se­quent­ly crim­i­nal. We do not con­clude that the same is true of LM­CS, as we are of the view they were ef­fec­tive­ly pre­vent­ed from pur­su­ing a res­cue by Paria,” the re­port said.