Boat that caused fatal Pomeroon crash in 2010 was speeding – court hears

Ovid Garraway, who was piloting one of two boats in the Pomeroon which crashed River in December 2010 resulting in the death of 13-year-old Jason Abrams, testified on Wednesday that the second boat had been speeding.

The pilot of that boat, Glenford Mentore, is currently on trial before Justice Franklin Holder and a 12-member jury.

Giving evidence in the High Court at Suddie, Essequibo Coast, Garraway said that on December 19, 2010, he was transporting the now dead boy and another person, who were on their way to a shop on the other bank of the river. He added that the boat he was driving was closer to the left bank of the river, when he