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Jan 23, 2010 News
-three months after abandoned vessel found
Grenadian authorities have finally released the ill-fated vessel, the Island Princess, to its Guyanese owner, some three months after its crewmen were brutally slain and the abandoned vessel was found off the Grenada coast.
The owner, Errol Prince, told Kaieteur News that the officials released the cargo vessel to him this week and that a crew is carrying out repairs.
Prince said that he anticipates that the Island Princess will be back in Guyana by next Tuesday.
It will then be handed over to local investigators, since the vessel is still a “crime scene’, Prince said.
The Island Princess’s four-man crew disappeared late September 2009, reportedly during a trial run to test its seaworthiness for a scheduled trip to Trinidad.
Their employer last heard from the crew while the vessel was moored at a place called Parika Beach.
The crew had indicated that they were coming in to port in the Demerara River when they were contacted.
However, hours later when they did not show up, several attempts to contact them proved futile.
The gutted bodies of its captain, Titus Buckley Nascimento, 46, and the engineer, 25-year-old Mahendra Singh, were subsequently found at Zeelandia, Wakenaam, and on the Hamburg Island seashore respectively.
A third gutted body, identified as that of 23-year-old Ryan Chin, was found near the Queenstown, Essequibo foreshore.
The bodies all bore bullet wounds.
The fourth crew member, 46-year-old crewman Rickford Bannister, was never found.
The Island Princess subsequently reappeared off the coast of Grenada in October, 2009.
Local police investigators had questioned a popular city businessman and others in connection with the murders.
However, they were subsequently released and a clear motive for the brutal murders has never been established.
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