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Boat overturns in Region Seven…Teen’s body recovered days after
The bloated remains of 18-year-old Hassani David of Lot 257 Section ‘C’ South Sophia was yesterday pulled from a river in Region Seven, days after the boat he was on capsized.
Dead: Hassani David
During a brief interview with Kaieteur News yesterday, the teenager’s mother, Natasha David, related that she was informed by her son’s workmates that he was missing and that no one knew where he went.
However, hours later, on Sunday evening last, David said that a relative who was also working in the same region with her son, called to say that the teenager might’ve drowned following a capsizing somewhere in the Puruni River.
“I guess they didn’t want to give me the bad news, so when de man called, he didn’t tell me that me son might be dead.”
The body of the Excavator Operator had been missing since Sunday. After receiving the bad news, David’s father travelled to the interior region on Monday, where he joined in the search for the remains of his eldest child.
After about two days of intense searching, the lad’s body was found.
“My husband coming home tonight (last night), so then I gon know is where exactly they found the body,” Mrs. David said. She told this newspaper that from what she has been able to gather, several other persons were on board the vessel when it overturned. However, of them all, her son was the only one who did not know how to swim, and drowned as a result.
The woman, who was almost in tears as she prepared for her son’s wake last evening, noted that the boy departed Georgetown in December last, and headed into the Cuyuni-Mazaruni region to work as an Excavation Operator with a family friend.
She added that it was her son’s first time in the interior, and that he was in the process of learning the ways of life there. She recalled that ever since he graduated from the Campbellville Secondary School, her son was adamant in wanting to find a job.
“He used to always seh that he want to work on a excavator. He never does want to stay home and so. He did always want to work, especially somewhere out of town,” the teen’s mother said.
She added that her son always insisted that he wanted to work particularly in the interior.
“I always tell he to get a job and work in town, and I even get a few places fuh him to work, but he didn’t want dah,” the woman said.
Mrs. David told this publication also, that due to the persistence of his scout teacher, her son even joined the Guyana Police Force, but because of the “meagre” salary, he left the job.
“He been there for a short while; it was very brief,” Mrs. David maintained.
She noted that her son had always been a quiet child who was very passionate about his work, and who always wanted to learn new things.
The woman also said that apart from her son’s insistence, she and her husband’s decision to send their son into the interior was as a result of them wanting to keep him away from an area where crime committed by youngsters is prevalent.
The weeping woman told Kaieteur News that she last spoke to her child in January. She said that the teen had called her to say that he would be returning to Georgetown for the Easter holiday, and that he was planning to buy a car. David said that her son also had big dreams of owning his own home at a very young age.
The teen leaves to mourn his parents, and a younger brother.
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