Boat-builder

Here Sookdeo double checks the measurement on a boat that is being built at his Pump Road, Mon Repos location.

Satrohan Sookdeo of Sookdeo’s Fishing and Boat Building began building boats at the age of 15. Today, he operates his own successful small business located at Pump Road, Mon Repos on the East Coast Demerara. He says he has been in the business for 10 years.

Sookdeo, who ‘born and grow’ in the Mon Repos community says that there was a group building boats there, and so he chose to learn the trade with them. “I like build boat,” he said. During his apprenticeship,