Relatives have performed the final rites for two fishermen, Mahendra ‘Rub’ Ompertab, 27, and Kanhai Madramootoo, 41, who disappeared at sea nine weeks ago.
But the men’s families are still finding it difficult to accept that they may never show up alive.
The only trace of the men who left home around 6.30 am on August 19 was a pile of fishing line attached to a “salt-bag” that fishermen found out at sea. Madramootoo’s wife, Shielawattie Ramotar told Stabroek News that “it gat to be that something terrible went wrong