-have video tape of green paint on broken boat
Relatives of the two men who died in the Essequibo River accident on August 11 which also left a 10-year-old boy missing are convinced that foul play was involved and one of them has a video tape of green paint on the shattered boat which could lead back to the coast guard.
And Salimoon Rahaman, the mother of 10-year-old Ricky Jainarine who has not been seen since the boat accident says she cannot find closure until she knows what happened to her son.
Closure, she believes, can only come if the heads of the joint services take their pleas seriously and investigate the accident thoroughly in an effort to ascertain whether the three coast guardsmen, Sherwyn Harte, Delon Gordon and Deon Greenidge who are all charged with the kidnap and murder of Dweive Kant Ramdass who was dumped in the Essequibo River last Thursday, were involved.
Relatives of 45-year-old Jainarine Dinanauth and Henry Gibson, the same age, yesterday maintained that foul play was involved in the men’s death and they called upon the police and the army to listen to their plea for justice.
Stabroek News has been unable to contact any officials in the army or the police to find out whether they are indeed investigating the suspected link of the coast guardsmen to the August 11 boat accident.
While GDF Chief of Staff, Commodore Gary Best dismissed the allegations as mere speculation last week Saturday during a meeting with Ramdass’ family, Commissioner Henry Greene when asked about the possible link last week Friday had this to say: “Well you know, we don’t have that evidence but now that you have mentioned it I am sure it would be fed into the system and we would be looking into that.”
Raw gold
Dinanauth’s daughter Savitri said yesterday her father, who had recently come out of the interior, had some raw gold on his person but she could not give the amount. She also said her father was wearing a gold watch at the time and while the police told her that his brother had collected the watch her uncle has since said he did not receive any watch. The woman also said that her father had some $530,000 on his person when he died and not a cent was recovered.
“The police are not doing anything to help us, is like they say it is just a accident and that is it but I know is not that… they get robbed and kill, we saying so all the time,” the young woman said yesterday.
“Where is the bag he had? How it just disappear, he had a bag with he, he been going to the farm and he had a bag,” the woman said.
She like Rahaman called on the person who allegedly saw the coast guard boat near to the one her father was in to come forward and give a statement to the police.
Savitri said while the post-mortem reports for her father and Gibson said they died from drowning it also stated that they had blunt trauma to the head. She read out the post-mortem report on the phone to Stabroek News and it stated that the man died from blunt trauma and drowning. Gibson’s reputed wife, Lilawattie Persaud, also confirmed that the report for her husband was blunt trauma and drowning. Savitri said the report also revealed that her father had marks on his back and his right hand was broken.
Dinanauth’s daughter said if her father had died from drowning alone then his body should have been found in the water as opposed to the boat.
“I think they hit them and then hold them head in the water till them dead and then rob them,” the woman said yesterday.
Meanwhile, Savitri said her family has a video tape of the green paint markings at the bottom of the boat following the boat accident which suggests that it had collided with a boat with green paint. The coast guard boat is painted in green. The man’s daughter also spoke of the alleged three-day docking of the coast guard vessel for maintenance following the August 11 accident.
Following her meetings in Georgetown on Monday Rahaman, who was Dinanauth’s reputed wife, said she met with the Commander of ‘D’ Division, Paulette Morrison, at the Leonora Police Station and she promised that the police would be searching the army’s Fort Island and Makouria bases in the Essequibo River today.
The woman said if her son’s body was in the water it would have resurfaced by now and so she believes he was taken somewhere and left and she needs to know where.
“It is just too much fuh me a going and looking fuh he and dem police ent helping me is me and me family alone, I don’t know what to do no mo…”
