Mon Repos villagers protest over piracy

Dhaneshwar Reddy in hospital yesterday

Dozens of Mon Repos villagers last evening poured into the streets to protest  the recent spate of piracy  even as the second body of four men who went to the aid of hijacked fishermen and encountered tragedy washed ashore in Essequibo.

“We fed up …fed up nobody care about we fishermen that is how all a we feel. Pirate attacking we left right and centre and nobody a seh nothing. We can’t get no security when we left fuh go out pun sea is we one and God alone no boat nah pass fuh see if we alright nothing …leh dem hear cocaine pun one a we boat nuh, see how quick dem get boats fuh come see” said Leonard Jettoo a fisherman and Chairman of the Anti-Piracy Committee, as dozens other chanted “Is time Is time”.

Questions have been raised about the apparent lack of GDF coastguard operations off the Pomeroon where