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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Fruit vendor goes missing at Tyrico Bay

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Idris  “Froggy” Singh

Idris “Froggy” Singh

kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

Hope is run­ning low for a Ch­agua­nas fam­i­ly which con­tin­ues their search for fruit ven­dor Idris Mar­cus “Frog­gy” Singh who dis­ap­peared un­der­wa­ter at Tyri­co Bay in Mara­cas on Sun­day.

At press time yes­ter­day, rel­a­tives said the Coast Guard did not find Singh. Singh, 23, of En­deav­our Road, Ch­agua­nas sold fruits at his broth­er’s Emer­son Fresh Fruits stall along Mau­si­ca Road, Mau­si­ca.

Emer­son Singh told Guardian Me­dia that Singh went to Tyri­co Bay with their broth­er An­to­nio Singh and broth­er-in-law San­jay Cun­jis­ingh on Sun­day.

Emer­son said that around 4.30 pm, the men fin­ished bathing and were re­turn­ing to the shore. Singh was walk­ing be­hind, and when Cun­jis­ingh looked back for him, he was nowhere to be seen.

“They de­cid­ed to go back in­to the wa­ter to search for him, but they did not see him. They alert­ed oth­er peo­ple who were there, but no­body could find him. There were no life­guards on du­ty, but there was one who was off-du­ty, and he still went in­to the wa­ter to search,” Emer­son said.

He said they con­tact­ed Mara­cas po­lice and the coast guard. He said the coast guard in­formed them that they could not be­gin a search un­til 6 am yes­ter­day.

“At 6 am, we reached the beach, but the coast guard was not present. At 10.20 am, they ar­rived with three divers. They scanned the area for 40 min­utes and left, say­ing they had to get safe­ty boots to search by the rocks. If they knew they were com­ing to look for some­body, why did they not come with boots?”

Emer­son said Singh was not sick or ex­pe­ri­enc­ing any dif­fi­cul­ties be­fore he went miss­ing. Even as the fam­i­ly hired a boat to aid in the search, he said there was lit­tle hope that they would find his younger broth­er alive as Singh could not swim.

He said Singh’s dis­ap­pear­ance has left their moth­er dev­as­tat­ed, es­pe­cial­ly as they shared a spe­cial bond.


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