Couple in custody after sugar worker dies during fishing trip

Feb 16, 2017 News

An estate worker’s body washed up at the Berbice River foreshore on the East Bank of Berbice, early Tuesday.
The dead man has been identified as Ramesh Seegolam, aka “Mikey”, 30, of Pepper

Dead: Ramesh Seegolam and his mother Usha Seegolam

Street, Heathburn Village, East Bank Berbice. Reports are that the man who is a Guysuco employee was last seen swimming in the Berbice River during a fishing and swimming expedition with a couple and their child.
Mother of the dead man, Usha Seegolam, 57, related to this publication that her son who was highly intoxicated told her that he was going on a fishing and swimming trip with some friends. “(On Tuesday), he and a man and a lady went and swim and after five, she (lady) come and tell me she ain’t seeing my son.”
The mother stated that “the lady seh how he come out and go in some bush but the small girl seh how he did not come out from the water.”
However, residents in the area revealed to this publication that “Mikey’s” death may not have been a simple drowning but rather a case of foul play allegedly orchestrated and executed by the said couple he ventured out with on the trip.
One resident explained that the woman, with whom the 30-year-old went on the trip, returned home and went to “Mikey’s” mother residence to return his clothes.
“The li’l girl come and tell me, ‘Aunty, since Mikey jump overboard he ain’t come up back from the water.”
She said the girl told her that she sat in the boat and was on the lookout for the man when she noticed what seemed to be blood streaming along the side of the boat in the water. The woman, however, is denying any knowledge about what might have happened to the man. She also refused to be a part of the search party for the missing man.
Kaieteur News was informed by some residents that the woman had joked about killing Seegolam. “Last week Saturday there was an incident and she said she don’t want him there at her house so she told people that she gonna kill he. They had big cuss out because she husband accuse she and Mikey of being together.”
Villagers were surprised that the man even decided to go with the couple on the trip given the previous incidents.
Seegolam’s body washed up after being caught in a fishing net in the waters.
Meanwhile, police have since arrested the couple.

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