When news began circulating that Mohamed Abdool Shameer, 58, had been involved in a boat collision in the Pomeroon River, his relatives were expecting his body to float up in three days. Instead they had to journey more than 60 miles to Moruca where he was found gutted and buried in a shallow grave.
It has been more than a month, and the man’s grieving relatives say they are stunned by the delay in the police investigation. Calling what occurred murder, they said they are being denied justice and even levelled allegations that there might have been a “fishy” deal between the police and those involved in the incident.
Among those arrested were the driver of the boat who is closely related to Shameer and another man who led the
