A Bartica boat captain, hailed as a hero by passengers, yesterday died after being snared underwater by his lifejacket when his boat capsized in the rough Cuyuni Rapids.
Carey Persaud had only minutes before offloaded his passengers and advised them to walk the bank of the river to a location where he would pick them up again, while he braved the rapids. He never made it to them alive.
Persaud was also known as ‘Cha Cha,’ 49, of Four Miles Housing Scheme,