– bodies found at Meten-Meer-Zorg foreshore
THE bodies of Sahadeo ‘Jango’ Bhagwandat and Ramdeo ‘Bobby’ Sijogie, both 46 years old, were yesterday fished out of a trench leading to the Meten-Meer-Zorg koker, on the West Coast of Demerara. When found, the bodies were wrapped together in the seine that they had gone to set last Friday afternoon.

A seine is a fishing net which hangs vertically in the water. It has floats at the top and weights at the bottom, and the ends are drawn together to encircle fish.

Unconfirmed reports indicate that one of the men had encountered a difficulty when his foot became entangled in the seine he had set, and the other had reportedly attempted to assist him to extricate himself when they both met their demise.
Although this incident happened on Friday, it was not until early yesterday morning that their bodies were discovered.
Both men had been imbibing alcohol immediately prior to the incident, relatives told the Guyana Chronicle yesterday.

Rajkumarie, known as Dianne, speaking to the Chronicle from her home at Lot 8 Railway View, Meten-Meer-Zorg, said that Bhagwandat, her husband of 22 years and the father of her four children, went on Saturday morning to pick up the seine that he had set on the previous day. “Since then he didn’t come home. I didn’t look all day Saturday because he does drink and come home till night. Sunday morning I got a bit worried, and my son and a couple of them boys from the area went to look for him. They didn’t find him anywhere,” the woman reported.

Subsequently, she went to the police station on Sunday afternoon to make a report, and yesterday morning she went to the Best Hospital and checked all of the wards to see if her husband had been admitted a patient.

It was only after returning home from the Best Hospital that she heard someone say two bodies had been found in the vicinity of the koker. Upon checking, she saw the bodies of her husband and the other man wrapped up in the seine.

Mrs. Bhagwandat said she believes her husband was drunk at the time of his meeting his demise and she suggested that he had drowned. She said Bhagwandat would sell his catch and proceed to go and imbibe; but apart from his drinking habit, her husband was an “ok” guy who had no health issues.

SIJOGIE

Sijogie was last seen on Friday afternoon playing cards a stone’s throw from where he lived at Lot 188 West Meten-Meer-Zorg. His sister, Mureen Ram, said Sijogie’s parents passed away many years ago, and he had lived with his two brothers up to the time of his death. He was unmarried and had no children.
Written By Telesha Ramnarine