Salima Rahaman yesterday

Salima Rahaman, the mother of missing 10-year-old Ricky Dinanauth, yesterday told the Guyana Chronicle that she has received news that her 10-year-old son was alive up to two days ago, but was killed following the murder of Dweive Kant Ramdass of Bartica on Thursday.

The woman added that she has been searching for her son since the incident on August 10 when his father and an employee died in a collision on the Essequibo River.

She combed several riverine communities in the Essequibo River, but came up empty-handed.

Rahaman said that her son was no stranger to the Essequibo River and often manned their boat to Parika to pick up his father who often visited their provision farm at Hogg Island.

She noted that her son on one occasion told her that he encountered a group of Coast Guard ranks and they took him to Parika and made sure he purchased a light for the boat.

“He said they told him to always have a light on in the boat especially at nights,” she explained.

Salima Rahaman and her missing son, Ricky Dinanauth

The Hogg Island Primary School pupil has been missing for 15 days and his mother is optimistic he might still be alive.

Rahaman and her son lived alone on the farm, and said that since his disappearance, she is unable to sleep and often wondered what has happened to him.

She visited the Parika Police Station and was told that there is no new information regarding her son’s disappearance.

Rahaman explained that the police never accompanied them on any of searches for her son and has since abandoned the search.

However, contrary to Rahaman’s report, Police said that they are continuing the search for the boy who is deemed missing following a boat collision on August 10 in the Essequibo River.

He was a passenger along with his father Jainarine Dinanauth and his father’s employee Henry Gibson, whose bodies were found in the badly damaged boat.

Police said the river mishap occurred sometime between 18:30h August 9 and 08:30h August 10 in the Essequibo River and which resulted in the death of Jainarine Dinanauth, 45, and Henry Gibson, 46, of Hogg Island, Essequibo River.

Ricky has been missing since then.