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Relatives of the two men who died in the Essequibo River accident on August 11 which also left a 10-year-old boy missing  are convinced that foul play was involved and one of them has a video tape of green paint on the shattered boat  which could lead back to the coast guard.

Jainarine Dinanauth

Jainarine Dinanauth

And Salimoon Rahaman, the mother of 10-year-old Ricky Jainarine who has not been seen since the boat accident says she cannot find closure until she knows what happened to her son.
Closure, she believes, can only come if the heads of the joint services take their pleas seriously and investigate the accident thoroughly in an effort to ascertain whether the three coast guardsmen, Sherwyn Harte, Delon Gordon and Deon Greenidge who are all charged with the kidnap and murder of Dweive Kant Ramdass who was dumped in the Essequibo River last Thursday, were involved.

Relatives of 45-year-old Jainarine Dinanauth and Henry Gibson, the same age, yesterday maintained that foul play was involved in the men’s death and they called upon the police and the army to listen to their plea for justice.

Stabroek News has been unable to contact any officials in the army or the police to find out whether they are indeed investigating the suspected link of the coast guardsmen to the August 11 boat accident.

     Henry Gibson

Henry Gibson

While GDF Chief of Staff, Commodore Gary Best dismissed the allegations as mere speculation last week Saturday during a meeting with Ramdass’ family, Commissioner Henry Greene when asked about the possible link last week Friday had this to say:  “Well you know, we don’t have that evidence but now that you have mentioned it I am sure it would be fed into the system and we would be looking into that.”

Raw gold
Dinanauth’s daughter Savitri said yesterday her father, who had recently come out of the interior, had some raw gold on his person but she could not give the amount. She also said her father was wearing a gold watch at the time and while the police told her that his brother had collected the watch her uncle has since said he did not receive any watch. The woman also said that her father had some $530,000 on his person when he died and not a cent was recovered.

“The police are not doing anything to help us, is like they say it is just a accident  and that is it but I know is not that… they get robbed and kill, we saying so all the time,” the young woman said yesterday.

“Where is the bag he had? How it just disappear, he had a bag with he, he been going to the farm and he had a bag,” the woman said.
She like Rahaman called on the person who allegedly saw the coast guard boat near to the one her father was in to come forward and give a statement to the police.
Savitri said while the post-mortem reports for her father and Gibson said they died from drowning it also stated that they had blunt trauma to the head. She read out the post-mortem report on the phone to Stabroek News and it stated that the man died from blunt trauma and drowning. Gibson’s reputed wife, Lilawattie Persaud, also confirmed that the report for her husband was blunt trauma and drowning. Savitri said the report also revealed that her father had marks on his back and his right hand was broken.

Dinanauth’s daughter said if her father had died from drowning alone then his body should have been found in the water as opposed to the boat.
“I think they hit them and then hold them head in the water till them dead and then rob them,” the woman said yesterday.

Meanwhile, Savitri said her family has a video tape of the green paint markings at the bottom of the boat following the boat accident which suggests that it had collided with a boat with green paint. The coast guard boat is painted in green. The man’s daughter also spoke of the alleged three-day docking of the coast guard vessel for maintenance following the August 11 accident.

Following her meetings in Georgetown on Monday Rahaman, who was Dinanauth’s reputed wife, said she met with the Commander of ‘D’ Division, Paulette Morrison, at the Leonora Police Station and she promised that the police would be searching the army’s Fort Island and Makouria bases in the Essequibo River today.

The woman said if her son’s body was in the water it would have resurfaced by now and so she believes he was taken somewhere and left and she needs to know where.
“It is just too much fuh me a going and looking fuh he and dem police ent helping me is me and me family alone, I don’t know what to do no mo…”

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  1. SandHurst First GUYANA says:

    …Now yall know that?

  2. LoveGT4Real TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS says:

    Can you imagine the criminal minds that would be responsible for this?………”died from blunt trauma and drowning”, even though the bodies were found in the boat.

    And I have no problem loosing all respect for commodore Best if he continues to be as dismissive as he presently is. I bet the response would be different if the victims were “high profile” citizens.

    There is a possibility that this child was left alive somewhere, so why waste precious time?

  3. FEDUPWITHINJUSTICE CANADA says:

    This whole thing is very sick and disturbing…. What these families are going through.

  4. BORAPORK CANADA says:

    The obvious is clearly visible even to the blind.

  5. Brandon Samaroo UNITED STATES says:

    The relatives of Kant Ramdass should unite with this family and demand that Jagdoe and Best come clean and find young Ricky Jainarine.

    Freddie Kissoon should also take up this matter along with Lincoln lewis, Witter and Bendcaps.

    This is disgraceful, where are all the religious leaders in Guyana where is their outrage?

    Guyana has turned into a place of where every man is for himself there is no unity amongst its people even in the face of absolute tragedy.

    Disgraceful and you call yourselves Guyanese, Gwan dat side, huts, Gyan gyan.

  6. britney UNITED STATES says:

    please find the child!!!!!!!!!!

  7. sajiwang CANADA says:

    the hardest part of all this is not knowing where this child is…is he dead…is he somewhere hurt in pain and hungry…I could just imagine what this mother is going through.

  8. coolieman UNITED STATES says:

    I have second thoughts on this one the army and police are covering up something, the minister or the president should get a special team to investigate, time to act Mr President.

    • Brandon Samaroo (Dissent is the hightest form of patriotism) CANADA says:

      you do? but the commandeer in chief, rohee and green are all top notch though right?

      MAybe you are feeling sick or something this is not your usual self, Did you eat some stale PPP porridge or something?

      Maybe you ate some PPP $%$%^&$%t and that caused your stomach to get all twisted?

  9. Donna Drake UNITED KINGDOM says:

    That child needs to be found, alive or dead!!! To the mother of the child: Please go to The Presidents House or Freedom House in Robb Street, or meet with the Prime Minister over this matter. Your child must be found. I pray to God that he is still alive. This madness with the Armed Forces has to stop.

  10. Donna Drake UNITED KINGDOM says:

    I wish I was there to help in the search for that child and be of some use to that poor mother. My heart bleeds over this matter. You have to walk in large groups now in Guyana, if you are to reach to your destination safely from the Armed Forces, to my mind… I call on the President to get to grips with this situation going on in Guyana, and leave no stone unturned… Shame and disgrace are all I can think of… Guyana, little garden with very bitter weeds…

    • Brandon Samaroo (PPP is now the new and improved PNC Dictatorship) CANADA says:

      I am totally with you on this donna this shows that this government does not have a soul nor a heart.

      Where is Priya Manickchand on this issue? still honeymooning i suppose?



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