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PM reveals missing boat captain drowned

Nov 30, 2012 News

The post mortem on the remains of 53-year-old Ramkissoon ‘Greenie’ Sukhan has revealed that he died as a result of drowning.
The PM was done by Government Pathologist Dr. Vivikenand Bridgemohan on Wednesday at the New Amsterdam mortuary.
Sukhan was the boat captain who left the Meadow Bank, East Bank Demerara wharf on November 1, last. Sukhan had departed with four other fishermen. On November 5, it became evident that the men and their boat were missing at sea. Their relatives started to become worried. They were all feared dead.
Three crew members, however, turned up and told the story of pirates attacking them at sea. They related that they were dumped overboard. The three survivors alleged that Sukhan was beaten, shot and dumped overboard while 17-year-old Vickram Harrynandan drowned after the pirates ordered the remaining crew members to jump from their vessel.
Sukhan’s badly decomposed body was found along the Eversham foreshore on the Corentyne last week Wednesday.
According to reports, following the discovery a report was made by fishermen in the area to the Upper Corentyne Fishermen’s Co-op Society at Number 66 Village, Corentyne. Additional reports were made to the police in the area the following day, but yet no one ventured out to bring the corpse to shore for some reason or other.
Further, relatives of the missing boat captain, were also suspicious about the reports of his demise. They were told that Sukhan was hauling in the day’s catch when the gunmen allegedly struck. They were told that Sukhan was shot and thrown overboard.
It is alleged that the gunmen fled with the crew’s valuables but returned and took the victims to another boat which then took them to land. However relatives of the missing man said they did not believe the crew members’ story.
“If people attack you boat they don’t come back to you to help you. We want the police to investigate this matter properly,” one relative told Kaieteur News recently.

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