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Sailor’s body arrives in Guyana
The body of 48-year-old Guyanese sailor Orlando Allen has arrived in Guyana. According to relatives, it arrived in Guyana on Saturday morning and was taken to the Merriman Funeral Home. Allen died onboard a vessel in Curaçao on July 27 last.
Debra Allen, the dead man’s wife, told Kaieteur News yesterday that relatives identified the body. She said that the remains could not be taken out of the casket to be fully examined at the time. The woman told Kaieteur News that a full examination of the body will be done this morning.
Dead sailor: Orlando Allen
According to Mrs. Allen, the company which her husband was employed with Prichard-Gordon Tankers Limited has sent a copy of the death certificate. However the certificate, according to her, is blank and does not specify the cause of death.
She further told Kaieteur News that although there is no cause of death on the certificate there is no likelihood that a second post mortem will be done.
“We’ll go ahead and bury him…and try to get some sort of closure”
Last week the company transferred almost US$1500 to her bank account for expenses the family has incurred and to facilitate the burial.
Allen had told Kaieteur News that her husband left Guyana on July 23rd. She was told that the man was employed with the Prichard-Gordon Tankers Limited, a London-based Company.
This was Allen’s third trip with the company. According to the man’s wife, he had been a sailor for the last 20 years. Burial is scheduled to take place today.
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