DJ in fatal E’quibo boat mishap admits to not wearing lifejacket

Popular Disc Jockey (DJ) Dorrel Romeo, called ‘DJ Magnum,’ who survived Saturday’s boat mishap in the Essequibo River that left two men dead, has admitted that he was among those not wearing a lifejacket at the time of accident.

“…Well you remember now, we thing dark. We ain’t got time. We is nah no pretty boy thing, wear lifejacket and them thing. We thing loud,” Romeo said in a video uploaded on his Facebook page during which he detailed his experience.

In a picture of the vessel prior to its ill-fated departure, seen by this newspaper, only one passenger can be seen wearing a lifejacket.