Body of barge crew member recovered

Mar 12, 2026 News

(Kaieteur News) – The body of one of the two crew members who went missing after a tanker barge transporting molasses sank early Monday morning approximately 9.5 nautical miles off Buxton on the East Coast of Demerara was recovered on Wednesday.

Relatives of 22-year-old Ravindra Bissoondyal better known as “Videsh” identified his body after it was retrieved. His fellow crew member, Gregory Singh, 52 is yet to be found. Kaieteur News was told on Monday that Bissoondyal had contacted his mother be𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞. His last words to her before going missing were, “I am on the barge and it is sinking,” Bissoondyal reportedly told his mother.

According to the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD), the TRADER III reportedly went down around 01:00hrs while transporting a cargo of molasses from Berbice to Georgetown. MARAD said it received a distress signal about the incident and immediately activated emergency response operations to search for the missing crew members. MARAD’s Emergency Operations Coordinator, Captain John Flores, is leading the search and rescue effort with support from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guard and the vessel’s owner.

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