Rel­a­tives of miss­ing fish­er­man Dar­ius Pe­ters are ap­peal­ing for as­sis­tance. Pe­ters, 31, along with Ken­ton Bernard, 41, left on a fish­ing ves­sel on June 21 from Ram­panal­gas, Ba­lan­dra.

Der­lene Pe­ters, 34, the sis­ter of Dar­ius, said the T&T Coast Guard is giv­ing the fam­i­ly a run around. Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia on Fri­day, she said, “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. It’s 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.” She said her broth­er was ac­cus­tomed to head­ing out in­to the north coast wa­ters to fish. She said Dar­ius and Bernard went out on a 28-foot fish­ing ves­sel named “In God’s Hands”. She said Dar­ius 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. I called the Coast Guard two min­utes ago and they are say­ing they are await­ing in­for­ma­tion. We reached out to a search and res­cue group in Venezuela who had no in­for­ma­tion.” Der­lene said oth­er fish­ing ves­sels with search par­ties went to search for the miss­ing men.

Der­lene said fam­i­lies of both men are plan­ning a prayer ses­sion on Sat­ur­day. Der­lene said in 2015 Joel Pe­ters, one of her 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.”