Body of missing Rose Hall Estate worker found in Canje River

The male body that was retrieved from the Canje river has since been identified as that of 51-year -old Nohar Singh of Betsy Ground, East Canje Berbice, who had reportedly gone missing on Wednesday, March 30.
Details surrounding the disappearance of the man are still unknown. However, Police have detained several persons as they investigate the matter.
According to the man’s wife, Donna Persaud, when he left home on Wednesday, he had said he was going up the river with friends to catch hassar. According to the woman, the men with whom he had left returned on Thursday, stating that Singh had gone missing. Reports are that the man did not respond to calls made for him, and during a mini-search, he was not seen. The crew had then decided to go and report the developments to family members.
Only recently, Police had conducted searches on the homes of some of the crew members for illegal drugs.
Meanwhile, wife of the late Nohar Singh said she had tried to stop her husband from making the trip. “I told him that he has his work at the estate, don’t go back to the creek, and he nah hear. I talk to him and take away his bag and his long boots. I fight with he in the house, and he tell me that he still going to the creek because he going and catch some hassar, and I tell him that I don’t want fish to eat; we want to see you out here in front of we eyesight. I know how he stay, and I know that he like drink.”
According to the 51-year-old woman, on Thursday evening they made a report to the Police that the man had gone missing, and a search party went upriver and discovered the body at about 1:30hrs on Friday in the vicinity of Black Bush Polder. However, it was not until about 11:30h that the body was brought out.