As police await legal advice from the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions on the boat crash in the Pomeroon River in which a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guard vessel collided with a civilian boat, resulting in the death of farmer Ryan Khayum, his widow has broken her silence and is calling for justice.
“I cannot swim but I remember fighting for my dear life. I remember I held on to a fat man but that person kept loosing my fingers and pushing me down, but I was not giving up, I gathered all my energies and yelled help with everything I had left in me before I lost consciousness,” Chandanie Khayum told Stabroek News.
Speaking with this newspaper on Monday, the woman alleged that the Coast Guard crew aboard the army vessel caused the accident through negligence, including failing to have their lights on at the time of the accident.