Resh­ma Ra­goonath

The body of Mara­bel­la res­i­dent Dwight Granger, who dis­ap­peared while bathing in Ma­yaro on Eman­ci­pa­tion Day, has washed ashore. Yes­ter­day, Granger's body was found on the Or­toire, Ma­yaro, beach around 3.30 pm. The 20-year-old fab­ri­ca­tor of Bat­too Boule­vard, Mara­bel­la, dis­ap­peared while bathing with friends on Wednes­day at the pop­u­lar beach.

His friend, Matthew John, 20, al­so of Mara­bel­la, is call­ing for a full in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to his friend's drown­ing. He knocked the po­lice for their slow pace in search­ing for his friend. John said the last time he saw Granger was on Wednes­day morn­ing around 1 am. He said they had just re­turned from the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port where they went to wel­come San?Fer­nan­do?East?MP Patrick Man­ning.

He said Granger got in­to a taxi and went to Mara­bel­la and promised to call him lat­er to go to the Eman­ci­pa­tion Vil­lage in Port-of-Spain. How­ev­er, he said when Granger did not call, he be­gan to wor­ry. "I went look­ing for him every­where he would go. I went?San Fer­nan­do, Mara­bel­la, Pleas­antville. I check my sis­ter she did not see him. I called his grand­moth­er and she said she did not see him. I kept call­ing his phone but it was dead," John said.

He said when he called back Granger's grand­moth­er she told him his friend was dead. John said he met some friends who told him that Granger went with them to the beach and he got in­to dif­fi­cul­ties while in the wa­ter. "He was like my broth­er," John said. John said he and Granger had re­cent­ly reg­is­tered a kid­dies mas band, Is­landers Mas­quer­aders, and were plan­ning to have a band for Car­ni­val 2013.

"We got to­geth­er as a part­ner­ship busi­ness for the kids band 2013.?He worked with?We Peo­ple In­ter­na­tion­al mak­ing mas and we was go­ing to make we own mas, called 'Trin­ba­go Sweet fuh So.' Now I do not know what will hap­pen with that," John said. Ma­yaro po­lice are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.