Hopes of finding a 61-year-old boat captain are slipping away according to family members after the man went missing on Saturday in the Mazaruni River.
Reports are that Carl Subratie of Thomas Point, Mazaruni River, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni), left his home on Saturday to transport a group of passengers to an interior location like he has done for the past 27 years.
As time went by, the now missing man’s family tried to reach out to him via his cell phone to no avail.
Two days later there was still no answer, prompting some of his family members to begin looking for him at the location that he was supposed to have headed to. Upon arrival, persons at the location told the family that he had left since Saturday to return home. It was at this point that the family decided to make a missing person’s report to the police and a search and rescue effort was subsequently launched. However, since then, all that they have managed to find are some pieces of clothing and other items belonging to the missing man.
His boat was also not found and there is fear that something may have happened to him while on his way back from his trip.
In the wake of the incident, his daughter, Sameena Sabratie who spoke to Stabroek News acknowledged that as the days go by, their hopes of finding him are getting slimmer.
“After so long, yes we still had hopes yes, but right now I don’t know what to say, we are just hoping for the best.” she said.
The daughter maintained if he had drowned then his body would have been found and as such, there is a fear that something may have happened to him.
“As I’m saying, if he drowned his body would have already been floating but we are not finding him. We are looking every day. We suppose to find he by now, we suspect he drowned but the boat disappear we are just finding the stuff. Just his stuff that was in the boat that all we are finding. No boat, no engine just the stuff that was in the boat.”
She is still however, optimistic that her father will eventually be found.
