00:00Osha is in a terrible mess. The system has been corrupted by persons for whatever reasons, whether political or otherwise, who are failing their duty to every working man and woman in this nation. And today I'm calling for an investigation into Osha by those who have a responsibility to oversee it.
00:19Political leader of the Congress of the People, Prakash Ramada, on the heels of the Privy Council's final judgment last week in the matter of the University of the West Indies and the Occupational Safety and Health Authority and Agency, in which the Privy Council established a specific six-month limitation period for certain offenses under this country's occupational safety law. Ramada, an attorney at law, reflected on the Paria diving tragedy.
00:49Why is it that no charges were laid? And if you were concerned that it would have been a commission of inquiry or parallel proceedings, the normal course of events is to lay your charges, but do not proceed with them until other determinations.
01:06He also referenced the April 2021 Nyquan explosion.
01:11One of the officers had intended to, in fact, I understand, put for a prohibition notice, meaning that all will have to be stopped there until certain things were done to ensure the safety and well-being of the workers at night.
01:26The very same senior officer, from what I've been told, I do not know as a faculty, that's why I'm calling for an investigation, overrode that officer's prohibition notice and took control of it and allowed Nyquan to continue where after an explosion occurred where a young man died.
01:45He says he has received much information of impropriety, which needs to be investigated.
01:52That there was a deliberate effort by a very senior manager within OSHA to suppress the work of one of its investigators, who had intended to do this investigation and to lay charges within the six-month period, to the point that that officer had to leave OSHA.
02:08Ramadar, the attorney for two of the deceased divers, repeated his call for a $5 million settlement for the dead men's relatives.
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