There are re­ports that the rel­a­tives of a 28-year-old fa­ther of one have de­mand­ed a full-scale in­ves­ti­ga­tion af­ter he died at Paria’s Point-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ties yes­ter­day.

The man has been iden­ti­fied as Shaquile Dou­glas, a welder from Princes Town.

Ac­cord­ing to the Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny in a state­ment yes­ter­day evening, con­trac­tor Shaquile Dou­glas died sud­den­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing at Paria’s fa­cil­i­ties in Pointe-a-Pierre, af­ter com­plain­ing of feel­ing un­well.

Paria said at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 10.45 am, Paria’s Health, Safe­ty and En­vi­ron­ment De­part­ment was in­formed that the con­tract em­ploy­ee, of Son­ny Be­har­rysingh and Sons, was work­ing on a sev­en-foot scaf­fold­ing struc­ture at Paria’s fa­cil­i­ties when he asked to take a break from the work.

Paria said Dou­glas’ col­leagues, re­al­is­ing he was feel­ing un­well and in med­ical dif­fi­cul­ty, con­tact­ed Paria’s HSE de­part­ment. EMT of­fi­cers were im­me­di­ate­ly sum­moned and op­er­a­tions at the site were sus­pend­ed.

The com­pa­ny said when the EMT of­fi­cers ex­am­ined Dou­glas he was un­re­spon­sive and all ef­forts to re­vive him were un­suc­cess­ful.

Paria said an­oth­er at­tempt was made to re­vive Dou­glas by the Fire Ser­vice when they ar­rived but he re­mained un­re­spon­sive. It added the po­lice and Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer (DMO) were called in and at 1.10 pm, Dou­glas was pro­nounced dead.

Both Be­har­rysingh and Paria’s gen­er­al man­ag­er, Mush­taq Mo­hammed, met with Dou­glas’ rel­a­tives to of­fer sup­port to the fam­i­ly.

This in­ci­dent comes eight months af­ter the deaths of four divers who were sucked in and stuck in­side a 36-inch pipeline off Paria’s fa­cil­i­ty in Pointe-a-Pierre in Feb­ru­ary. A fifth div­er man­aged to sur­vive the or­deal.

Their deaths and trag­ic cir­cum­stances are now the sub­jects of a Com­mis­sion of En­quiry be­ing led by King’s Coun­sel Jerome Lynch.