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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Mom hopes for answers with release of report after son’s death at NiQuan

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Sascha Wilson
9 days ago
20250609

Two years af­ter los­ing her son in a fa­tal ex­plo­sion at Ni­Quan En­er­gy’s Pointe-a-Pierre plant, Al­lan­lane Ramkissoon’s moth­er is re­lieved that she may fi­nal­ly get an­swers sur­round­ing his death. 

“I re­al­ly want to see the re­port and what comes of it,” said 68-year-old Chris­tine Ramkissoon, as she re­act­ed to news that a High Court judge has quashed the Min­istry of En­er­gy’s de­ci­sion to with­hold its in­ves­tiga­tive re­port in­to the 2023 in­dus­tri­al ac­ci­dent that claimed her son’s life. In an oral rul­ing on Fri­day in a ju­di­cial re­view claim brought by Ramkissoon’s wid­ow, Sarah Ramkissoon, Jus­tice Ava­son Quin­lan-Williams found there was sig­nif­i­cant pub­lic in­ter­est in re­leas­ing the in­for­ma­tion. The judge stat­ed, “Dis­clo­sure of the re­port will il­lu­mi­nate the min­istry’s in­ves­tiga­tive process and its find­ings on the op­er­a­tions of Ni­Quan that led to cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing her hus­band’s death.” 

Speak­ing with re­porters at her home in Bar­rack­pore yes­ter­day, Ramkissoon’s moth­er said her chil­dren in­formed her about the court’s de­ci­sion.

“We would re­al­ly like to see what go­ing to work out af­ter two years. Now I will get some an­swers.” 

As she wiped away tears, Chris­tine said her son’s death took a toll on the en­tire fam­i­ly, but their faith has helped them cope. “God give we the strength. We be­lieve in a great God and He who keep­ing we since that hap­pen. It was re­al sad—all the chil­dren and every­body was up­set to see he leave we. It was very sad. It was re­al rough ... God give we the strength.” She al­so shared that her hus­band, 74-year-old Dan­ny Ramkissoon, has di­min­ished eye­sight due to cataract and finds com­fort in re­li­gious songs and pro­grammes fol­low­ing their son’s pass­ing.

The moth­er ex­pressed grat­i­tude to her son’s for­mer em­ploy­er, Massy En­er­gy En­gi­neered So­lu­tions Lim­it­ed (MEES), and to all those who sup­port­ed the fam­i­ly dur­ing the dif­fi­cult pe­ri­od.

Ramkissoon, a MEES plant fit­ter, and his col­leagues were con­duct­ing main­te­nance work at Ni­Quan’s plant when the in­ci­dent oc­curred. The fa­ther of two was re­port­ed­ly dis­con­nect­ing a ni­tro­gen hose from an in­jec­tion point when a fire ig­nit­ed and en­gulfed him. He was first tak­en to a pri­vate hos­pi­tal in San Fer­nan­do be­fore be­ing trans­ferred via air am­bu­lance to a hos­pi­tal in Bo­gotá, Colom­bia, where he died three days lat­er.

Guardian Me­dia al­so vis­it­ed the home of his wid­ow yes­ter­day, but no one came out­side or re­spond­ed.


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