Some six fishermen have gone missing along with their fishing boat, Invincible 3, which reportedly overturned near Shell Beach at the Pomeroon River mouth.
According to reports, the boat which departed the Meadow Bank wharf on December 12, was operating in the Shell Beach area when it overturned.
When contacted yesterday, Rajendra Narine, the owner of the boat, who lives at Plantation Andrews on the Essequibo Coast, said he has no information concerning the boat or its occupants.
“I didn’t hear nothing yet about the crew. People calling me whole day and they telling me different stories so I don’t have anything solid to work with,” he said. “I can’t start searching either because I don’t have no good direction as to where to go.”
He added that he has been keeping in close contact with the wife of the boat captain, Nathan Bacchus called ‘Joe’, but he could not say who the other men on the boat were the day that it left the port.
“One man tell me that if the boat turn over at Shell Beach then the men must be deh in Venezuela since that is the closest place and they maybe get help from there,” Narine said. “I plan to travel up to Georgetown on Thursday to go into the Foreign Affairs Ministry to see if they can give me a pass to go in Venezuela to see if they deh there. I can’t go in the people country just so. So I hope I get help from the ministry.” Angela Vieira, the wife of the missing boat captain, said that she did not know what and who to believe.
“I get a call on Boxing Day and I heard that the boat that my husband was captain for turn over at Shell Beach. From then to now we ain’t hear nothing else but I hope I get some news soon,” Vieira told Stabroek News.
She too said that she had been receiving conflicting reports from “people… so I don’t know who to believe. If I hear anything now, I will be glad. The owner of the boat and me does keep in touch so if he hear anything he will tell me,” she added.
