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Sunday, February 16, 2025

Hunters’ search for missing fisherman comes up empty

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Sascha Wilson
1214 days ago
20211020
Atiba Williams, missing Tobago fisherman

Atiba Williams, missing Tobago fisherman

Facebook/Watson Duke

Hunters Search and Res­cue Team yes­ter­day joined the search for miss­ing To­ba­go fish­er­man At­i­ba Williams.

Williams, of Good­wood Vil­lage, has been miss­ing at sea since last Thurs­day. His boat was found on Sun­day at Ca­noe Bay at Crown Point.

The boat’s en­gine was in­tact but the side of the boat was dam­aged.

Af­ter search­ing the land and sea for eight hours, how­ev­er, vol­un­teers and fish­er­men found no clues as to his where­abouts.

The Hunters Search and Res­cue Team got in­volved in the search af­ter it was con­tact­ed by Williams’ rel­a­tives on Tues­day.

Led by Com­man­der Ren Gopeesingh and Cap­tain Val­lence Ramb­harat, the group used a ves­sel do­nat­ed by To­ba­go fish­er­man Kester John, who has al­so been search­ing for Williams.

Williams’ cousin, Shaquille Williams al­so par­tic­i­pat­ed in the search which start­ed around 8 am from Rocky Bay, Lam­beau and end­ed at Ca­noe Bay, Crown Point.

Pub­lic Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent and Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots leader Wat­son Duke had called on mem­bers to ob­serve a mo­ment of prayer on Mon­day at 8 am for Williams’ safe re­turn.

Williams is al­so a crafts­man as­signed to the To­ba­go Ser­vices Di­vi­sion. In a Face­book post, the Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary School, where Williams at­tend­ed school, al­so prayed that he would be found alive and well.

The post read, “Heav­en­ly Fa­ther, we ask you to send your an­gels to en­camp around At­i­ba, and guide him home safe­ly. We al­so ask you to strength­en his loved ones, and grant them your peace which pass­es all un­der­stand­ing at this time. AMEN. Sig­nal Hill Fam­i­ly let us con­tin­ue to lift him up in prayer.”

The Hunters group re­turned to Trinidad yes­ter­day.

How­ev­er, oth­er search­es are still on­go­ing.


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