Four missing after boat capsizes in Cuyuni

Clive Welcome

Four persons are missing after their boat capsized at the Matouk Falls on the Cuyuni River, Region Seven yesterday.

River and aerial searches up to late yesterday afternoon failed to turn up any sign of Clive Welcome, 18, of Bartica, Junior Bandhu, 35, of Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo and Shawn Robinson and William Patwa of New Amsterdam, Berbice. Three others including the boat captain, Junior Lyte, 19, of Batavia, Cuyuni managed to make it to shore when the boat, the Black Angel capsized at the Matouk Falls at around 10.30 am yesterday. The other survivors are David Prass, 26, of New Amsterdam and Morris Hopkinson of Second Avenue, Bartica.

The falls are about an hour away from Bartica, according to