RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

An­oth­er body be­lieved to be one of the miss­ing Guayagua­yare fish­er­men has been dis­cov­ered off the coast of Moru­ga.

Head of the Hunters Search and Res­cue Team Cap­tain Val­lence Ramb­harat con­firmed this say­ing the body is in an ad­vanced state of de­com­po­si­tion and is un­rec­og­niz­able.

Giv­en the lev­el of de­te­ri­o­ra­tion, Ramb­harat said it could be one of the fish­er­men who dis­ap­peared while fish­ing off Guayagua­yare on Jan­u­ary 31.

Guardian Me­dia was re­li­ably in­formed that a fish­er­man named Jairaj Jairam saw the body at about 10 am and called a rel­a­tive in Ma­yaro. He pro­vid­ed the co­or­di­nates to Ramb­harat who sent it to the TT Coast Guard. Of­fi­cers lat­er found the body and brought it to shore.

Andy Tall­man George, Cap­tain George Otis and Heer­alal 'Li­nus' Kooblal, 54, from Grand La­goon, Ma­yaro re­main miss­ing. The body of Rishi Khem­chan, the fourth fish­er­man was found en­tan­gled in the thick un­der­brush of the man­groves at Cocuina, North Venezuela. His fam­i­ly was ex­pect­ed to jour­ney to Venezuela to iden­ti­fy the body.

The four men left Sea­wall Guayagua­yare on board the new­ly re­paired Benom 2, reg­is­tered TFN 5906. It was sup­posed to be a two-day trip but when the men did not re­turn on Feb­ru­ary 2, their fam­i­lies lodged a re­port. On Feb­ru­ary 5, the boast was found cap­sized off the coast of Ce­dros. All four fish­er­men are now re­sumed dead.

Guardian Me­dia will up­date this sto­ry as more in­for­ma­tion comes to hand.