The police are calling on the relatives of persons who drowned in the Abary Creek on May 27 to provide them with the telephone numbers from which repeated calls were made to 911.
In a press statement yesterday, police again denied claims made by Tara Mattai, a close relative of the three deceased that the telephone numbers police referred to in an earlier statement were not the ones that the numerous 911 calls were made from.
On May 27 a fun-day ended tragically for the Berbice family when Sharda Singh, 38, of Blairmont; captain of the boat Jainarine ‘Satesh’ Kowshilla, 32; and eight-year-old Deanna Ramjit of Bush Lot lost their lives after the boat capsized. The group of friends and relatives had gone on a picnic and some of them were crossing to the other side of the creek when the mishap occurred.
The police, in response to a Stabroek News article published on June 25, under the caption ‘Relatives of Abary Creek victims haunted by tragedy that unfolded before them’, yesterday stated that they had investigated telephone numbers obtained from the Kaieteur News and found that no 911 calls were made from them.
In view of the allegation being made by Mattai, the police said, they were requesting that the other phone number (s) be made available in order that further investigations can be conducted.
Mattai had told this newspaper that the numbers the police referred to were not the ones that the numerous 911 calls were made from.
Police last week issued a statement in which they said that they had investigated the claims made by Mattai about numerous calls to 911. The June 19 release responded to a May 30, 2009 Kaieteur News article captioned ‘It makes no sense to call 911 – Canada-based Guyanese’.
