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Monday, July 14, 2025

Mysteries around Mosquito Creek drowning

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The el­der­ly man whose body was re­cov­ered from the Gulf of Paria on Sat­ur­day by jour­nal­ists and en­vi­ron­men­tal ac­tivists in­ves­ti­gat­ing a mas­sive fish kill has been iden­ti­fied as Satro­han Bun­see, 80, of Col­ley Street, Fyz­abad.

Bun­see was spot­ted float­ing out to sea at around 9.05 am on Sat­ur­day by the group who were wait­ing for a boat to take them out to a lo­ca­tion where a large num­ber of dead fish had been spot­ted.

The group post­poned their trip in an at­tempt to res­cue Bun­see but by the time they reached him, lit­tle could be done to save his life.Yes­ter­day at her Fyz­abad home, Bun­see's daugh­ter Ann Ram­bachan told the T&T Guardian she re­alised her fa­ther was miss­ing around noon on Sat­ur­day.

"I was call­ing him ear­li­er in the day but he didn't an­swer. I didn't get wor­ried yet but when I tried call­ing clos­er to lunch time and I still wasn't get­ting an an­swer, I start­ed call­ing oth­er fam­i­ly mem­bers and neigh­bours to see if he was with them," she said.

"The neigh­bour told me he left home around 8.30 and said he was go­ing out the road."

Af­ter dozens of fran­tic calls, Ram­bachan vis­it­ed the Siparia Health Fa­cil­i­ty to see if her fa­ther had been there.

"I went in and asked but they said they had no record of him be­ing there. We al­so called the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal and checked with the Ca­su­al­ty (de­part­ment) but they said no as well."She then vis­it­ed Bun­see's home and when she tried call­ing his cell­phone again, she heard it ring­ing in­side the house.

"I went in think­ing he maybe was in­side but af­ter search­ing the whole house I still couldn't find him," she said.

By af­ter­noon, Ram­bachan was very wor­ried.She said: "I had made up my mind to buff him when he come home, I wasn't think­ing any­thing like this could have hap­pened."

At ex­act­ly 6.14 pm, she called her broth­er An­ish to ask him if their fa­ther was with him and ex­pe­ri­enced some­thing she still can't ex­plain.

"I had called An­ish ear­li­er and he wasn't an­swer­ing but that time he an­swered and I asked him, 'Pa with you?'

"He said yes, Pa was with him all day and had on­ly left five min­utes be­fore to come home."

She left her home and went to Bun­see's home again to wait for him but she was still wait­ing al­most an hour lat­er when a neigh­bour saw the re­port of his death at the Mos­qui­to Creek on the CNC3 News and told her.

"The thing is, An­ish say he nev­er an­swered the phone, he nev­er talk to me...my broth­er wouldn't lie and I know I called him and no one else."She pulled up the call log on her phone, high­light­ing the call to An­ish's num­ber which last­ed sev­er­al min­utes.

"I don't know if that was a fi­nal com­fort for me or if I was sup­posed to be by the house, I just don't know," Ram­bachan

Fight­ing back her tears, she re­called how she cooked for Bun­see and took care of him al­though they lived in sep­a­rate hous­es.

"He used to say 'I will tell you when to bring food for me,' and if he didn't call, I used to call and ask him," she said.

Fri­day was last time she saw him alive.

"I took him to col­lect new glass­es and then sent him home in a taxi. He seemed fine to me, but he said some­thing he nev­er re­al­ly say be­fore. He told me 'God will bless you child'."

Ram­bachan be­lieves her fa­ther jumped in­to the swirling wa­ters on Sat­ur­day in an at­tempt to end his life.

"I don't know why he did it, but it is clear he in­tend­ed that. He left home his wal­let with his ID card and dri­ver's per­mit, his cell phone, his cane which he used to use all the time be­cause his feet hurt from arthri­tis. He left every­thing be­hind."

Ram­bachan and oth­er rel­a­tives vis­it­ed the San Fer­nan­do Mor­tu­ary where Bun­see's body was iden­ti­fied.

An au­top­sy is ex­pect­ed to be done this morn­ing and fu­ner­al arrange­ment's will be made for lat­er on in the week.


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