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Venezuelans fail to keep appointment with police

May 20, 2012 News

 

 

While police had reassured farmer, Ramjattan Lall, that the Venezuelans involved in the boat collision at Charity, would have returned in a week’s time, Ramjattan said that the Venezuelans have not returned and he is still at a loss over who is going to compensate him for his loss.
Lall lost 20,000 coconuts and other farming produce and equipment he was transporting.
From all reports, police are maintaining that investigations are ongoing and that the information is being processed to be forwarded for advice.
Lall, who met with the maritime officials in Georgetown recently, said that officials are indicating that they have not been supplied with any information that suggests the trawler was involved in the boat collision.
On Sunday last, two days after the incident, the Venezuelan natives and trawler were released from police custody.
Lall is contending that the Venezuelans were released before the stipulated 72 hours and he was assured by the police that the men would have returned to Guyana last Friday.
Lall added the men were released so that they could discharge the quantity of fish that they were transporting to Venezuela, when the collision occurred.
Accompanied by three of his workers, Lall was proceeding towards the farmers wharf at Charity when the unlit trawler bearing the inscription “Miliannys” hit his boat on its starboard side, sinking the vessel, within minutes of the impact.
While Lall’s boat sustained extensive damage, he and his workers were left stranded in the water until they were rescued by the Mackbool family at Charity and transported them to lodge a report about the incident at the Charity police station.
Lall said that the police told him they did not have a vessel to trail the Venezuelan vessel, so he was forced to hire two boats which transported the police, who apprehended the vessel and men on board some ten miles from Charity.
Police detained the crew and the vessel was docked at a businessman’s wharf at Charity, until Sunday around 5pm, when it was released.

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