UPDATE: RVIPF ends search for missing Guyanese
According to Police Information Officer, Diane Drayton, all search possibilities have now been exhausted.
“Police have exhausted all search possibilities. The matter will now be the subject of a Coroner’s inquest,” Ms Drayton told Virgin Islands News Online in a brief comment.
Head of Virgin Islands Search and Rescue (VISAR) Mr. Phil Aspinall also confirmed that searches by VISAR for the missing man have also ended.
Fraser’s wife, Rehani Bacchus, told this news site that she plans to conduct one final search next Sunday, January 12, 2014 before heading to Guyana shortly afterwards to hold a thanksgiving service in his memory
See previous story published January 6, 2014:
One month later: still no sign of Guyanese Roger Fraser
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – One woman still clings to her faith in hopes that some shred of evidence will offer her the closure she so badly craves following her husband's disappearance, even after all this time.
January 8, 2014 marks one month since the disappearance of two men who had gone for a fishing expedition that went horribly wrong on the northern side of Tortola with one of the men still missing and his wife Rehani Bacchus still searching for answers.
The two Guyanese men, Roger Fraser aka ‘Scarry’, 41 and Kendeye Thomas disappeared on December 8, 2013 after leaving their respective homes to fish in the Cooper Bay area. Both men were allegedly swept out to sea by rough waves from the area they had settled to fish. A third man escaped unhurt.
Thomas, who had planned to make a trip home to Guyana for the Christmas holidays, was discovered washed ashore at the nearby Larmer’s Bay the following day. He was buried in his native Guyana last Thursday, January 2, 2014.
However, there remains no sign of his friend, Fraser, even after extensive land and sea based searches conducted by teams from Virgin Islands Search and Rescue (VISAR) and the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF).
Along with a small team, his wife Rehani Bacchus revisited the location yesterday, January 5, 2014 where the two were last seen fishing and saw for the first time, items that her husband had left behind.
Crabs were still reportedly seen alive in the bucket that had been taken to shore as part of the day’s catch, even after one month. His Wellington (rain) boots also remained at the scene along with an item of clothing. She wondered aloud why the items had not been retrieved by Police search teams, but left them intact at the scene.
The status of the Police investigation remains unclear at this time, as according to Bacchus, no communication had been received by family members as to the current stage of the inquiry.
Family members plan to host a thanksgiving service in Fraser’s memory sometime next month in Guyana but would welcome any measure that would offer them a sign at this point.
Meanwhile, Bacchus remains optimistic that some evidence will emerge, even amidst the fading passage of time.
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25 Responses to “UPDATE: RVIPF ends search for missing Guyanese”
What made you come to that conclusion? Were you around when the police were conducting their investigations? While I sympathise with the bereaved family, some of you just like to stand on the side and utter pure rubbish which helps neither the family or the police. As old people would say, if you don't have anything good to say just shut our trap.
if you r truly interested in this matter perhaps you Mr./Ms. "sad" should get off your "wana-be" duff and lead the charge...set the example - you know what I mean??? PLEASE!!!!!
@ all of the bloggers who did nothing to help. What made you think that these items are still there after a month of investigations. Give some positive support to the family and stop creating propaganda.
that is a fishy I say is a murdered