THE body of 23-year-old Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guard, Wayne Paul was found floating in a creek along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway (opposite Splashmins) on Phagwah Day, Monday, March 17.

The rank, who was identified by relatives had, reportedly, gone out with eight friends that day before he was pronounced dead in the village of Supply, as he was being taken to Diamond Hospital, also on East Bank Demerara.
He leaves to mourn a two-year-old son.
Initial reports are that Paul, said to have been a very good swimmer, was a member of the Coast Guard Unit for several years, before he took the fatal plunge.
The Guyana Chronicle understands that his companions saw the young man’s body floating but paid it no mind as they assumed he was playing a prank.
However, they became concerned when Paul remained afloat as rain began to fall and went to his rescue but discovered he was not responding. Although his eyes were open, there was no pulse nor heartbeat.
Speaking to the Guyana Chronicle, Paul’s mother, Angela Worrell, 54, said she got a call stating that her son drowned in the village of Supply.
She said she could not believe it since her only child was a swimmer and worked in the Coast Guard Unit.
Only child
“I know he could swim. He even swims in the Demerara River. I’m so disappointed. Words can’t explain how I feel since he is my only child,” the woman lamented.
One close friend, Luana Bowman, who was also at the creek, told this newspaper that she and seven others were enjoying themselves when they saw Paul’s body floating.
But they did not take it seriously because they knew he was a good swimmer and they, too, thought he was joking.
When the floating continued for a very long time and they suspected that something wrong, they then pulled him from the water and artificial respiration was performed by a medex.
After they saw he was not responding, they took Paul to a hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
“I’m his close friend, I can’t believe he is dead, he died in my arms; how I’m feeling only God knows,” Bowman said.
Another friend, Alana Layne said she got a phone call from one of his friends who was at the creek and went to the hospital where she saw Paul looking like if he was sleeping.
No reply
She did not know he was dead and tried to speak to him but got no reply.
“Honestly, I feel really sad, I can’t sleep, I can’t eat. We were five years together and we are engaged and were to get married sometime this year.
“We had so many future plans and now he is dead. I don’t know what to say and I don’t know what to do,” she confessed in tears.
One other female friend, who wanted to remain anonymous, declared that something about the whole story is not adding up.
“Everyone has different things to say. Why don’t his friends who were there come out and say exactly what took place at the creek?”
“A mother who spent every day of 23 years with her only child needs answers; and so does his family,” she stated.