An Upper Pomeroon man is missing following a boating trip and his relatives believe he may have been hit by another vessel and drowned.
Missing is Samuel James, a father of eleven.
His distraught wife Maylene Daniels told Stabroek News yesterday that he left his home for Charity, Essequibo Coast to conduct business around 3 pm on Tuesday. She said that based on the information she received James left Charity some time after 7 pm but he never made it home.
She said that after she did not see him she decided to call persons in Charity and was told that a boat was found drifting “below Charity”. Worried that some terrible fate had befallen her husband, Daniels said, she travelled to the Charity Police Station where she identified the boat as his.
The woman told Stabroek News there was visible damage from the bow to the stern as if another vessel had grazed it. She said too that the “motor was hit off and was hanging outside de boat”.
She expressed the view that another boat had slammed into James’ while he was returning home.
She said that he usually travelled on the water top after dark and always made it home safely.
Daniels said the police took a statement from her but made no attempt to launch a search for the missing man.
“I want them [the police] to go and search for him or to find is who hit him,” the worried woman said.
