OCTOGENARIAN Huntley Immanuel Mickle was found lying face down in the murky waters of ‘Clifford Gutter,’ a tributary of the Canje Creek, Berbice, some three days after he was reported missing.

His son, Collie Mickle, told the Guyana Chronicle that his 82- year-old father had left his Bara Cara home to hunt for wild animals as he had been doing for over 50 years.

“It was his source of income apart from farming,” the younger Mickle said.

On Monday, just before 11: 00hrs, the octogenarian who sired over a dozen children, left his home paddling his wooden boat, but not before informing his young friends that he was going to “see meat fuh shoot.”

However, his niece Claudia Amsterdam became worried after he did not return home later that day.  The following day she made checks for her uncle along the dark waterway, but to no avail.

On Thursday, the family was told that he had reportedly gone to Clifford’s Gutter, a small creek off the Canje River. Subsequently, checks were made and his remains were seen floating in that area.

Upon the discovery, a report was made at the Central Police Station and ranks accompanied by relatives visited the scene.

Collie Mickle said his father’s body was found partially submerged and about 30 feet from the boat. His father’s shot gun and ammunition were not in the boat.

The body was transported to New Amsterdam on Friday evening and is currently stored at the Arokium Funeral Home. A post-mortem will be conducted on Monday.
Meanwhile, just over a week ago, the lifeless body of another Canje Creek resident, Clement Shultz, was found submerged in water with a fallen tree across his body at Stephenburg, Canje River.

The discovery was made by his wife Ann Johnson, who had mobilised a search party after her spouse did not return home for lunch.

The 45-year-old logger and cash crop farmer had left his home in his wooden boat to cut two lumber posts from a nearby forest, but after completing the task tragedy struck.

The cause of his death is uncertain, due to the decomposed state of his body.