Mines officer missing after boats collide in Pomeroon

A senior officer attached to the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) was up to last evening missing and feared drowned after a collision which occurred late Saturday night in the Pomeroon River.

No one else was reported missing.

Patrick Ramkellawan, an employee of GGMC’s petroleum division, is feared dead after he was tossed overboard when the boat he was in slammed into a fishing vessel in the Pomeroon River.  Several calls to Minister of Natural Resources, Robert Persaud for information on the incident went