Shas­tri Boodan

Guardian Me­dia Cor­re­spon­dent

Rel­a­tives of two miss­ing fish­er­men Dar­ius Pe­ters and Ken­ton Bernard are ap­peal­ing for as­sis­tance to find them.

Pe­ters, 31, and Bernard, 41, left on a fish­ing ves­sel on June 21 from Ram­panal­gas, Ba­lan­dra.

Der­lene Pe­ters, 34, the sis­ter of Dar­ius, claimed they have been get­ting a run around from the T&T Coast Guard.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia on Fri­day, she claimed, “Every time we call the Coast Guard, they keep say­ing that they are await­ing in­for­ma­tion from Venezuela. It’s been nine days now and we are hear­ing noth­ing. That’s all we are hear­ing, its like they are not help­ing with noth­ing, and this is over­bear­ing now. We would like the Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty to get in­volved in this.”

Der­lene said her broth­er was ac­cus­tomed head­ing out in­to the North Coast to fish.

She said her broth­er and Bernard went out on a 28-foot fish­ing ves­sel named In God’s Hands.

She said her broth­er has a two-year-old son, who lives with his moth­er, who is al­so mak­ing in­quiries.

“Every­body has tried con­tact­ing dif­fer­ent agen­cies. We are try­ing all how and we are get­ting a lot of run around. We reached out to a search and res­cue group in Venezuela, who had no in­for­ma­tion.

She said oth­er fish­ing ves­sels with search par­ties went to search for the miss­ing men.

She said the fam­i­lies of both men are plan­ning to hold a prayer ses­sion to­day.

Der­lene said in 2015 Joel Pe­ters, one of her oth­er broth­ers, went miss­ing when he went to Care­nage and nev­er re­turned.

She said, “We nev­er get a phone call, We don’t know if he is dead, if he is liv­ing. The fam­i­ly is al­so in a mess be­cause this is a sec­ond per­son who has gone miss­ing.”