Almost seven months after a fisherman and father of six left on a fishing trip and never returned relatives are still waiting for answers from the authorities and his employers.
On May 14 last 42-year-old Claude Robinson left his Unity, Mahaica home in the company of his employer and three other fishermen and was never seen or heard from again.
According to Robinson’s wife, Donna Scotland, on the morning of May 14 around 3 am her husband’s ‘boss man’ came in a car with three other fishermen and he left with them to go on a routine fishing trip. Scotland said her husband had been a fisherman for 10 years and the longest he would stay at sea since he had started working for this employer was four days.
Scotland told Stabroek News that on May 15 a neighbour came to her home and related that the boat on which her husband was working had been hit by a pontoon somewhere at sea and only her husband’s three companions had survived. She said after being told this story she went to the employer, and he had given her the same account.
The woman enquired if they would go back to the location where the incident had occurred to conduct a search for her husband and the man had undertaken to do so. However, according to Scotland this was never done.
“One time de boss man tell me that they went back to look fuh me husband, but dem coast guard stop them