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Pirates hijack boats in Corentyne River

Feb 27, 2012 News

– fishermen alive and safe in Suriname

Some Berbice fishermen are thanking God for being alive after being attacked and robbed by pirates around midnight on Saturday last.
Reports are that pirates attacked five Guyanese fishing vessels in Surinamese waters on Friday.
They also stole one of the boats which they used to escape with money, seines, engines and a large supply of gasoline taken from their victims.
According to Nacho Manohar aka “Fire” of Number 66 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, he is the owner of two of the affected boats.
“I had six boats out there working and all near each other but pirates attack two. They take away the gasoline and engines and use one of the boats to get away. All the men went to do fishing together.  One of the other boats that get robbed belongs to my brother Jewan.”
The boat owner explained that a rescue team left sometime yesterday with another one of his boats to aid the affected fishermen.
All of his boats are deep sea fishing boats that are 53 feet in length.
At present, the traumatized victims are at Copenaam, Suriname, helping police with investigations.
Kaieteur News spoke with the wife of Premnauth Manohar, one of the boat captains.
She stated that her husband left with his crew on Friday to conduct fishing activities but sometime around midnight on Saturday the pirates attacked.
While she was worried about the situation, the captain’s wife said that Premnauth and his crew were not harmed.
“From what I know they aren’t hurt from the attack. They’re in Suriname still and should be coming home soon. Them take away the engine, gas, seines and whatever little money was on board with my husband them”
Two of the boats belong to Nacho Manohar from Number 43 Village, one boat from Mark Jainarine of Number 78 Village and the fourth belongs to D. Persaud of Number 54 Village, all on the Corentyne.
While details are still sketchy, the source related that reports received were that the engines were taken away by the pirates.
(Kristen Macklingam)

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