Family members of the two West Coast Berbice (WCB), Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) fishermen who have been missing since Wednesday, along with officers of the Marine Department of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Coast Guard, continued their search on Friday for the men.
On Wednesday, 17-year-old Visual Parmanand and 32-year-old Daniel Inchanally both of Cotton Tree, WCB left Crabwood Creek (CWC), at around 15:30h on Monday, and were expected to sail along Guyana’s Atlantic coast to the estuary of the Berbice River, where they were to moor the boat at the Three-Door landing site at D’Edward village.
They have not been seen since.
Daniel Inchanally and Visual Parmanand
The boat was discovered Wednesday along the Tain foreshore by a fisherman. At the time, a bag containing the teenager’s belongings, including his cellular phone, was in the boat, and the 60hp engine was still on the vessel.
The boat owner and fisherman, Mahindranauth Parmanand, who is also the father of the teen, said it was a new boat he had made, and had purchased a new engine, hoping to put it into operation that Wednesday.
The search for the missing men began Wednesday morning and continued up to Friday. Up to press time, they had not been found.
Parmanand, who owns two other fishing boats, said police used a drone in aiding them in the search, while the Coast Guard assisted in the search in the Atlantic.
He said that on Friday, they searched along the Coast from where the boat was discovered at Tain, going east to Number 37 Village and west from Tain to Albion.
According to Parmanand, they have planned to search the beaches stretching from Rosignol to Abary along the WCB.
The search is expected to continue today.
