Kurutuku toshao’s woes continue

Solomon Lewis

After being stranded in the city due to damage to his boat engine, toshao of Kurutuku, Solomon Lewis was further inconvenienced after someone stole the vessel.

It was only yesterday after a week of searching that he recovered the vessel which was partially concealed in the Cuyuni River. “I believe some island people wanted to steal it,” Lewis said. He said that someone had been seen using the vessel. “That person would have steal it if I didn’t move fast,” he said. The leader of the remote Amerindian settlement had hidden the boat in the Cuyuni River after the engine was damaged while he was on his way to the National Toshaos Conference at the end of July.

Since then he was stranded in Georgetown but later went to Bartica to look after the engine. It is still to be