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Outing at Ocean View Hotel turns deadly as teen drowns
A family outing between cousins turned fatal during a visit yesterday to the pool at the Ocean View International Hotel, Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara.
Dead is Cyon Peterkin, 17, of 21, Paradise, E.C.D.
Dead: Cyon Peterkin
The body of the former Bladen Hall Multilateral School student was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where he was pronounced dead.
Reports disclose that at 15:15 hrs, Peterkin and several of his cousins visited the hotel where they paid $2,800 for four persons to use the pool which in some sections was up to 11 feet deep. Although there were six persons in the group, hotel staffers said that they could have only accepted four persons to use the pool at that time as it is against the rules.
The young lad (Cyon), who had changed into his swim wear, decided to test the water with his toes but somehow slipped into the pool. Relatives then frantically tried to get assistance from the hotel staffers.
The body was reportedly pulled out of the pool 10 minutes after the lad was down. An Amerindian man from Sumara Village who was an occupant at the hotel, help to pull Peterkin from the pool.
“I call for help, help! A boy was right around and I ask he if he could swim to help, then I run in front to get help. The pool doesn’t even have a sign to show you which side deeper or how much feet is the pool or nothing. If people providing a service at the pool they should have a life guard,” one relative said angrily.
According to one of the cousins, Nyasha Carrington, the entire group did not visit the pool to swim. “Some of us just wanted to take out pictures and hang out at the pool. He (Cyon) said he could swim, but before we know it- we were taking out pictures- he done fall into the pool and gone down to the bottom.”
“None of them working here can’t even swim properly, because when we calling for help, then the receptionist at the front, run and jump into the pool. They even had to search for the boy for a long period when we telling them where we see the boy jump in. They telling we no and they were jucking with sticks to find the body.”
The lad’s mother, Carla Peterkin, was heading home from a funeral when she got the shocking news that her eldest child had drowned at the Ocean View International Hotel.
Peterkin, who had seen her son a few hours earlier at Paradise Primary School, rushed to the GPHC.
The pool in which the lad lost his life.
The grieving mother told this publication that when her son visited her at the Paradise Primary School, where she teaches, around 13:40 hrs, he did not inform her that he was going swimming.
Being comforted by loved ones, Peterkin related that Cyon was expected to attend the Guyana School of Agriculture. “I gave him the money to pay for his lab coat. Cyon would have started GSA this month.”
The woman said that her son would have celebrated his 18th birthday on September 27.
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