Several meetings have been held with the GEB security firm in order to assist with the investigation which has been launched by the Ministry of Labour’s Occupational Safety and Health Department (OS&HD) after 27-year-old guard, Zephyr Stanislaw fell overboard and drowned earlier this month.
Consultant Officer for the OS&HD, Gwenneth King, confirmed to Stabroek News that an investigation has been launched and meetings were held since the man’s body was recovered.
On March 1 at about 04:00 hours it was said that Stanislaw accidently slipped and fell into the river while he was performing guard duties on a vessel named “Demerara”. His partially decomposed body was found the next day floating in the vicinity of Pritipaul Singh’s wharf which is located at Peters Hall, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
This newspaper had previously reported that Stanislaw, of Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara, was stationed at Rubis Incorporated, at Providence, EBD and according to GEB head, Maurice Amres, he was unsure as to why the now dead man was on the vessel at the time and that there was no ladder for him to climb down from.
Additionally, a staff member had also said that it was Stanislaw’s first day back on the job since he had left and gone into the interior to work. Upon his return he was assigned to work on the vessel as he had worked in the Marine Section before.
