THE two brothers held for killing a fellow fisherman at sea this week have confessed to the police and are expected to be charged shortly.

Ronald Emmanuel Reid, called “Manny” of Lot 25 Castello Housing Scheme, Georgetown was killed off the coast of Lichfield, West Coast Berbice.
The police arrested 39-year-old Gregory Nohar of Paradise, Essequibo Coast, and his brother, 42-year-old Roy Nohar.
The murder stemmed from an argument between the three fishermen Tuesday last. One of them, the younger Nohar, whipped out a knife and inflicted a single, fatal stab to 27-year-old Reid.
“I jook he,” admitted an unapologetic Gregory Nahar, while his brother Ray confessed to holding Manny in a chokehold while his brother delivered the fatal blow.
They alleged that “Reid and the captain as well as another other crew member were smoking and after the weed finished, they get hysterical and started troubling we.”
The captain strongly denied the allegation and labeled the two brothers as “the real junkies who started acting weird after a few days at sea.”
According to Reid’s father, Brian, he received a call Tuesday evening from the boat saying that his son had been stabbed and bled to death.
“I say, ‘Man, is joke you all mekkin?’ Then the captain take the phone and said, ‘Brother, this is ‘Wine-up’ telling yuh ‘Manny’ dead; dem them man jook he and he lie down in a corner and dead,’” Reid’s dad recalled.
“My son don’t deh in problem; he big and strong and he don’t mess around people. You can ask anybody about dis man; he don’t deh in problem at all.
“Anybody can tell dis man anything, and he don’t really get vex; like I never hear my son cuss nobody.”
Explaining what he learnt of what transpired, Brian Reid said: “I hear that he and de man that stab he had a talkin’ and de talkin’ did done; and then when they went to pick up the seine and pull in the bow line, he stab he wid a knife.”
After the matter was reported to the police, the vessel was brought ashore and docked at the Meadow Bank Wharf.
The Nohar brothers are expected in court this week.

(By Rabindra Rooplall)