Body of missing teen found on the seabed in the vicinity of Long Bay Beach

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ROYAL POLICE FORCE OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Office of Strategic Communications (STRATCOM)

MEDIA RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Police Investigating Suspected Drowning of Seaton’s Teen

St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda, Saturday, 14 February 2026

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the suspected drowning of 19-year-old Zakeem Nicholas of Seatons.

Reports indicate that Mr. Nicholas and a companion went out to sea on the morning of Friday, 13 February, aboard a vessel for a recreational diving activity off Seaton’s Dock.

Both individuals reportedly entered the water; however, Nicholas subsequently developed problems with his fishing gear and was last seen swimming back to the vessel.

When his companion returned to the boat, Nicholas was nowhere to be found. Efforts to locate him were unsuccessful.

The Antigua and Barbuda Coast Guard was notified and immediately initiated a coordinated search and rescue operation involving multiple vessels and rescue personnel.

After several hours of extensive searching, Mr. Nicholas was not located, and the search was suspended at approximately 5:30 p.m. on Friday.

At approximately 8:05 a.m. on Saturday, the Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force Coast Guard resumed search efforts, and at 10:09 a.m., the lifeless body of Mr. Nicholas was discovered on the seabed in the vicinity of Long Bay Beach.
He was subsequently pronounced dead at approximately 10:39 a.m.

The Police Administration extends sincere condolences to the family and loved ones of Zakeem Nicholas and expresses gratitude to the Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force Coast Guard and all those who assisted in the search and recovery operation.

Investigations into the incident are ongoing.
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  1. Wow! I was praying he was found safe after your earlier report! Who knew a life could ended so swiftly and unexpected! Condolences to the loved ones

  2. Condolences to the family and friends of this young man! What was suppose to be a fun experience ended in a way he will never be able to speak about! Rest in Peace young man

  3. WHAT THE HELL…! …WHAT STUPIDITY? …INVESTIGATING SUSPECTED DROWNING?
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    Firstly, if ‘POLICE SUSPECT:

    (a) ‘…DROWNING: and

    (b) …NOT MURDER, WHAT IS SO DIFFICULT TO IDENTIFY THE SO CALLED ‘…COMPANION?’

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    WHAT IS THERE TO CONCEAL, IF POLICE BELIEVE ‘…MISADVENTURE BY DROWNING?’

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    MOST IDIOTIC: …PROFESSIONALLY ATTESTABLE

    NOW:

    IN SUPPORT OF SUCH CONTENTION OF ‘…MOST IDIOTIC:’ …BEEN THERE: …DONE THAT:

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    CANADIAN VISITORS

    (i) ‘…HUSBAND SATWICK MISNA 38:
    (ii) …WIFE MOHINI MISNA 37: and
    (iii) …SON SHRAY MISNA 5,’ reportedly taken to

    (iv) ‘…BRIDGE OF THE DEVIL (beyond Willikies community):

    (v) …SOME TIME AFTER 5 O’CLOCK, IN THE MORNING:

    (vi) …NOVEMBER 30, 2023: either to

    (vii) …SEE THE SUN RISING: or

    (viii) …SEE THE DEVIL SWIMMING.’

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    VISITORS ‘…READ’ RIGHT HERE AT ‘ANR:’ that

    (a) ‘…WHILE WALKING OVER THE ‘…DEVIL SEA BRIDGE:

    (b) …ONE ‘…HELLUVA WAVE’ CAME: and

    (c) …WASHED MOTHER’… MOHINI AND SON SHRAY,’ AWAY.’

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    EVEN THE ‘…ABDF COAST GUARD PERSONNEL,’ WERE REPORTEDLY FEARFUL THAT THE ‘DEVIL’ MAY HAVE DONE SOMETHING,

    THEY KEPT AWAY, UNTIL THE ‘…DEVIL KNELT TO PRAY.’

    ***

    SURVIVED TO SEE THE RISING SUN

    According to the ‘…POLICE PRESS RELEASE:

    (i) ‘…ONLY HUSBAND/FATHER SATWICK GOT ‘…SAFELY ACROSS THE ‘…BRIDGE OF THE DEVIL:

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    Not treating these shall have been:

    (a) ‘…REASONABLY SUSPECTED MURDERS:’ lightly.

    (b) ‘…SEEMINGLY, ONLY THE ‘…NOT SUSPECTED HUSBAND/FATHER’ ALONE MUST HAVE SEEN THE DARN ‘DEVIL.’

    ***

    CRIME COULD NEVER BE SOLVED THIS WAY.

    SIR WRIGHT F. GEORGE CONTINUES TO SAY SO

    ***

    NOW:

    (i) ‘…Very clearly, some ‘…DUFFERS’ never learned.

    (ii) …Some seemed ‘…TOO BLOATED’ to learn:

    (iii) …Some seemingly ‘…TOO TURKEY STUFFED’ to learn: and

    (iv) …Some seemingly ‘…TOO POT BELLIED to learn.

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    HERE IS WHY:

    Instructional ‘…BASIC Law Enforcement Training,’ under ‘…TUTOR SHIP: of

    (a) ‘…FORMER COMMANDANT, SIR WRIGHT FITZHENLY GEORGE KCN, MVO, QPM, CPM: at

    (b) …THE NEGLECTED AND ABANDONED ‘…SIR WRIGHT GEORGE TRAINING ACADEMY:

    (c) …HE TAUGHT ‘CARDINAL ‘NAL’ KING:

    (d) …WINSTON JOHN: and

    (e) …ENZLEY CARRETTE: and whoever else that

    (i) ‘…WHEN A ‘…DEATH’ WAS REPORTED:

    (i) …APPROACH THE INVESTIGATIONS WITH ‘…MURDER IN MIND:

    (ii) …UNTIL THE CONTRARY IS PROVED.’

    ***

    NOW

    SOME ‘POLICE IS SAYING TO ‘…ANR:’

    (i) ‘…THE POLICE ‘…SUSPECT DROWNING: and

    (ii) …COME HELL OR HIGH WATER:

    (iii) …THAT IS WHAT THE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING.’

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    WELL: …CRIME SOLVING: …PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVE

    LIKENED TO ‘…9-YEAR-OLD CHANTEL CRUMP’ AND THE ‘…INCOMPLETE INVESTIGATIONS, CRIME COULD NEVER BE SOLVED BY SUCH APPROACHES.
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    QUESTION

    WHO WAS THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE?

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    WHAT THE HELL…!

    ***

    WHO KNOWS WHAT THE CONTRARY MAY PROVE?

    ***

  4. Sometimes I wonder what have the police service you were part of done to You? As a xpolice officer course 19, I am ashamed of you with all the Criticism from you. You were nothing Better.Just a reminder if you Turn senile. Can you Remember Election Night 2004? You were one of the Choir / Leaders singing from the ALP Song Book.How we seem to Forget. The police has Flaws just like any other organization and instead you( Pompey) Give your service and Advise to the Force,You are the one so Critical of the Good Men and women in the Police Force. Guess if a vincitian was at the Head you would not be so Critical. You are one Badminded Man and I am talking from Experience

  5. @Xpolice isn’t Wendell Alexander doing the same thing to his former colleagues by e❌posing the police incompetence and lack of professionalism? Pompey is trying his best to purge his soul. It’s no secret that the Police is the biggest gang on the land.
    Why do you think so many become alcoholic and dope addicts? Is the police rum shop still located at the Headquarters?
    Either the reporting is shoddy or something smells fishy and it ain’t the sargassum weed. There’s a simple rule to follow when going diving over a reef, have a line long enough to reach the reef with extra footage with a buoy attached to it. The same way you mark your fish pots.
    Pompey is purging his soul.

  6. WHAT THE HELL…! …@XPOLICE: …CHOIR/LEADERS SINGING FROM ALP HYMN BOOK…?
    INSTINCTIVE SMARTNESS OF BABOONS: …A COURSE-19 GOON…?
    ***
    PROFESSIONAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL GUIDE:

    Few colleagues knew of: ‘…RAWLSTON POMPEY’S PROFESSIONAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL GUIDE.’
    ***
    The comments and commentaries on social media, and right here at ‘…ANR,’ are so ‘…GUIDED.’
    ***
    NEVER COMMENTED ON ‘…POLITICAL MATTERS/ISSUES.’

    ***
    WHY?

    HAVE LEARNED FROM: the

    (i) ‘…THE BRITISH:

    (ii) …THE CANADIAN: and

    (iii) …THE AMERICAN

    ***
    Instructionally, the best was ‘…PROFESSOR CARL STONE’ (Mona Campus: Jamaica).
    At the ‘Twickenham Park Regional Police Command College: 1987].
    ***
    POLICE AND POLITICS: …DEMARCATION LINE

    He guided understanding of the ‘…DEMARCATION LINE: of

    POL-I-CE: and

    POL-I-TICS:
    ***
    That ‘…DEMARCATION LINE,’ is at the ‘…LETTER ‘I.’

    ***

    WHENEVER POLICE OFFICERS CROSSES ‘…I’ TO GO TO ‘…T,’ THEN THEY ARE SUBJECTED TO ‘…EXPLOITATION.’

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    HAVING ‘…OUTLIVED THEIR USEFULNESS,’ THEY ARE ON: ‘…SHIT STREET.’

    ***
    ASK:

    FORMER COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, DELANO CHRISTOPHER AND THE ‘…CANADIANS.’

    ***
    NOT SUBJECTING THEMSELVES TO ‘…EXPLOITATION’: ask

    (i) ‘…TRUEHART SMITH (Suspended):

    (ii) …GARY NELSON (Dismissed):
    (iii) …VERE BROWNE (Suspended):
    (iv) …WENDELL ROBINSON (Dismissed): and
    (v) …RAWLSTON POMPEY (Opted for early retirement: 2006).’

    ***

    WHAT THE HELL…!

    ***
    ALL POLITICIANS ARE STILL HIS FRINENDS.

    ***

    @XPOLICE: COURSE 19:

    Well, with the ‘…INSTINCTIVE SMARTNESS OF BABOONS,’ it would be ‘…an INSULT TO ALL BABOONS’ to associate them with this ‘…XPOLICE COURSE 19-GOON.’

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    FOUR THINGS:

    The ‘…COURSE-19 INSTRUCTORS’ may have been faced with endless trouble and insurmountable difficulties with this ‘…XPOLICE.’

    (i) ‘…COMPREHENSION:

    (ii) …LEARNING:

    (iii) …HONESTY: and

    (iv) …T-R-U-T-H.’

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    THEN AND NOW:

    (a) ‘…EVERYONE KNOWS THAT ‘…RAWLSTON POMPEY’ HAS NEVER: been

    (b) …CHUMMY: or

    (c) …BOSOM BUDDY: or

    (d) …ASSOCIATED SOCIALLY-PUBLICLY OR PRIVATELY WITH POLITICIANS:

    (e) …NEVER BEEN TREACHEROUSLY INVOLVED: with

    (f) …ENGAGED IN POLITICKING: or

    (ii) …POLICE/POLITICAL NEWSMONGERING: or

    (iii) …INFIGHTING AGAINST COLLEAGUES: or

    (iv) …BACKBITING AGAINST ‘…SUPERIOR OFFICERS’ WITH POLITICIANS.’

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    INSTEAD:

    (a) ‘…CONSTANTLY READING AND LEARNING: …SEEKING PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE:

    (b) …SHARING AND DISSEMINATING INFORMATION: thereby

    (c) …HELPING IN ‘…SHAPING MINDS AND ‘…SHARPENING PROFESSIONAL SKILLS.’

    ***
    BOAT OR GOAT:

    (i) NOW, HAVE YOU ‘…MISSED THE ‘…TRAIN OF LEARNING’ FOR POLITICAL BOAT:

    (ii) …THEN NO WONDER THE EXHIBITION OF ‘…INSTINCTIVE BEHAVIOR LIKENED TO A GOAT.’

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    TWO THINGS ‘GOATS’ DO NOT KNOW:

    WHETHER IN OR OUT OF THE POLICE SERVICE ‘…RAWLSTON POMPEY ‘ ALWAYS LOATHED:

    (i) ‘…INCOMPETENCY: and

    (ii) …MEDIOCRITY.’

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    WHAT THE HELL…! …READING AND LEARNING MAKES A ‘…READY MAN/WOMAN.’

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