Almost four years to the day since he vanished, the mystery of missing boy Ricky Jainarine endures and with the conviction last week of three ex-coastguards of the murder of a gold dealer, relatives want police to reopen the investigation into the boy’s disappearance and the deaths of his father and a friend.
Based on the circumstances of the incident in 2009, relatives believe that the then Coast Guards were involved, but a police investigation got nowhere. On the evening of August 11, 2009, Ricky, his father Jainarine Dinanauth, 45, and a family friend, Henry Gibson, 45, were heading from Parika to Hog Island in the Essequibo River. The bodies of the two men were discovered in the shattered boat the next morning but there was no sign of Ricky. He has never been seen since.
A relentless search by the boy’s mother Salimoon Rahaman failed to yield any sign of the lad. Rahaman and other members of the public believe that Coast Guard ranks were involved in the incident and had murdered the men. Their suspicions were heightened after
