Guyanese Media employee dies after boat capsizes

One media employee was killed, and a number of other others injured Tuesday after a ship transporting staff and communication personnel from the Workplace of the President capsized within the Pomeroon River, located between the Orinoco and the Essequibo rivers.

Cameraman, Trevor Patrick, 48, was hooked up to a tv station in Essequibo and was present process coaching with Radio Essequibo.

Media stories stated the boat carrying the employees was reportedly a brief distance behind the one carrying the presidential delegation when it out of the blue flipped over, throwing all occupants overboard.

– Commercial –

The opposite occupants, together with an data officer and two cameramen hooked up to the president’s workplace, have been all pulled out of the river by the occupants of one other boat that was within the space on the time.

Patrick was pulled from the river in an unconscious state and brought to the Charity Hospital the place he was pronounced lifeless. The opposite injured individuals taken to town the place they underwent further medical checks, in line with the Head of the President’s PR Unit, Suelle Findlay-Williams.

President Ali was within the decrease Pomeroon space on a go to to flood-affected communities. He has since met with the widow of the cameraman who died.

CMC/