Heroes for saving drowning boy

TWO heroes were rewarded for their bravery yesterday. At a ceremony at the St Margaret’s Anglican Church in Belmont, the two were honoured for saving the life of Daniel Augustine last Tuesday.. Saadiq Jumah and Monica Monceaux received Certificates of Merit, for rescuing Augustine from  a box drain at Jermingham Avenue and Norfolk Street. Monceaux told Newsday yesterday that she could still see Augustine struggling in the raging waters. “I called everyone I could think of that day, when I heard him screaming. I even called the Ministry of National Security,” she said. Monceaux said she had been sitting in her house when she heard the screams.

“I immediately jumped up on my bed, and I saw him twisting up and down in the water.  I am still traumatised!” She said she even visited Augustine at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital to see if he was still alive. Jumah had been taking a “rest” when his wife told him that someone was drowning in the drain nearby.  “I got up and saw everyone just standing and looking, I didn’t wait I just jumped into the water,” he stated. Jumah claimed that he is unable to swim and nearly drowned a few years ago. “I have children and I wouldn’t want that to happen to my family,” Jumah said. Augustine said that he felt he would have died after he fell into the choppy waters, while trying to jump across the drain.