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Aug 18, 2018 News
The 6th International Nereid’s Rally which was scheduled for the 13th September, to be hosted at Hurakabra River Resort and the participants welcomed to Guyana at a lunch hosted by Minister of Business with responsibility for Tourism, Dominic Gaskin, has been cancelled.
The rally which was scheduled to host some 15 yachts, has suffered the sudden, short notice withdrawal of 11 yachts.
According to the Hurakabra River Resort, the cancellations resulted from the widespread domestic and international publicity given to what has been described in the headlines of local media over the deadly attacks which left more than a dozen Guyanese missing and feared dead during attacks between warring Guyanese fishermen living in both Guyana and Suriname.
“These headlines have found their way into the international media, on to the specialist websites upon which cruising yachts rely for their information and, most recently, less than a week ago, into a major Washington Post story reporting on attacks at sea on Trinidad & Tobago boats (not yachts) from Venezuela offshore Trinidad.”
According to the resort, the Washington Post story, unfortunately, reports that: “In April, masked men boarded four Guyanese fishing boats floating 30 miles off the coast of the South American nation”.
The story reports that “David Granger, the President of Guyana, decried the attack as a “massacre”. The story further reports that “Guyanese authorities linked the story to gang violence in Suriname”.
The resort said that sadly for Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, whose offshore seas are traversed by the International Nereid’s Rally, have been labeled in the minds of yachtsmen as a place where piracy occurs and where they do not belong.
“It is to be appreciated that the owners of the majority of these yachts are “live aboards”. The boats are their homes at sea.”
One of the yachts that cancelled, for instance, had already requested a booking for its crew and friends to visit Kaieteur Falls.
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