SHAR­LENE RAM­PER­SAD

LM­CS Lim­it­ed, the div­ing com­pa­ny whose four divers died in a pipeline at the Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny ear­li­er this year, has halt­ed all its op­er­a­tions.

This ac­cord­ing to the com­pa­ny’s HSSE man­ag­er, Ah­mad Ali. Ah­mad is the nephew of LM­CS own­er Kaz­im Ali Snr and the cousin of one of the de­ceased divers, Kaz­im Ali Jnr.

Three oth­er LM­CS divers, Yusuf Hen­ry, Fyzal Kur­ban and Rishi Na­gas­sar al­so died in the ac­ci­dent on Feb­ru­ary 25.

One div­er, Christo­pher Boodram, sur­vived.

Ah­mad was tes­ti­fy­ing be­fore the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry set up to in­ves­ti­gate the dead­ly ac­ci­dent on Tues­day when he made the state­ment.

He said the com­pa­ny is putting all of its fo­cus on the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry and will use its find­ings to ad­just its safe­ty guide­lines when it is com­plet­ed.