Another body found at sea

THE BODY of a man surfaced yesterday at the shoreline behind the Military Museum in Chaguaramas and it immediately created speculations that it was connected to the discovery of the multi million dollar cocaine seizure and two bodies between Manzanilla and Mayaro. However, a senior official of the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard said this possibility is far fetched because of the flow of the current. The Coast Guard man said if the body was connected to the Manzanilla/Mayaro fiasco, then it would have either drifted to the north or south. President of the Military Museum Gaylord Kelshall also shares the view that it was highly impossible that a body could float from Manzanilla. “It’s just a coincidence,” Kelshall said, adding that bodies always turn up in the area.  While saying that it was also impossible, a senior police officer, however, said: “Stranger things have happened.”

Police reports on yesterday’s body find in Chaguaramas are that around 8.25 am fishermen spotted the body floating about 400 feet away from the shoreline. The body, which remained unidentified up to late evening, came ashore about 9 am and the fishermen later informed workers of the Chaguaramas Development Authority (CDA), who were at the time clearing the beachfront. CDA’s Chief of Security, retired Sr Supt Ulric Sanoir, Insp Arjoonsingh and Sgt Amos, along with officers of the Western Division headed by ASP Julius, acting Insp Anthony Lezama and PC Sanoir visited the scene. The man, believed to be about 40, of African descent was clad in moss green soft pants and yellow and blue short sleeve shirt.  He was not wearing shoes and was bald.  He also has a gold splice in the top centre of his mouth, and is medium built.  His body appeared to be in the early stages of decomposition.

District Medical Officer (DMO) Dr Low Chee Tung viewed the body and ordered it removed to the Forensic Science Centre.   Carenage police appealed to members of the public who may know anyone fitting the man’s description to go to Centre to identify the body.  Cpl Maraj of the carenage Police Station is continuing investigations. Meantime, the two bodies found between Monday morning and Tuesday evening remained unidentified up to late evening, officers of the Eastern Division said. The last body that surfaced at Cacandoo Trace is that of an East Indian man, between 35-40 years, and is 5ft 5ins.  He was wearing a dark blue jersey and a yellow water proof pants over a black jeans.  He wore a silver wrist watch on his left wrist and had a black patch of hair. Mayaro police are also appealing to members of the public with any information on the discovery of the two bodies in the Manzanilla/Mayaro area to go to the Forensic Science Centre.