Two men were on Monday charged with the murders of the two Guyanese construction workers whose bodies were found floating in a river hours after they were kidnapped in Trinidad.

According to the Trinidad Express newspaper Govind Dhanesar, a 23-year-old security consultant and salesman Adesh Maharajm, 35, were slapped with murder and kidnapping charges and were remanded to prison by Magistrate Forde-John.

The men were charged with the kidnapping and murder of murder of Guyanese Narad Sookoo, 28, and Tomeshwar Vinod Doobay, 22 who were abducted from their jobsite in St Augustine on May 16.
Their bodies were found in a river near a dumpsite the following day with single gun shot wounds to their heads.

Reports are that the men may have been murdered over TT$800 which was stolen from a Trinidadian businessman.

It was reported that the men worked with the businessman who had initially accused two other Guyanese of stealing the money and had the men assaulted before firing them. On seeing the assault of the two men, Sookoo and Doobay reportedly left the job and this angered the businessman who called and threatened them.

On the day of the kidnapping two heavily tinted vehicles turned up at the men’s worksite and after the two men approached the cars there was a heated argument before they were bundled into one of the vehicles.

Sookoo was cremated in Trinidad and Doobay’s body was brought back to Guyana and cremated over the weekend.