Seventeen passengers escaped unhurt after a speedboat sprang a leak in the deep waters of the Essequibo River on Sunday afternoon.
Boat captain Fidel Gibson is now in police custody as an investigation is ongoing, while Transport and Harbours Department will be examining the Yaffa C to determine what might caused the incident, which occurred at ‘Mother Bush,’ some six miles off the Parika Stelling.
This newspaper was informed that except for a