Man found dead in sea off Mt St George after coconut picking fall
Daniel Mc Lean’s body was found floating off Mt St George. Authorities believe a fall from a coconut tree caused his death.
Stephon Nicholas To-ba-go Cor-re-spon-dent A fall from a tree is be-lieved to have caused the death of a Ba-co-let man whose body was found float-ing in the sea in Mt St George yes-ter-day.. The de-ceased has been iden-ti-fied as Daniel Mc Lean, an em-ploy-ee of Dane Phillip Plumb-ing and En-ter-pris-es who sup-ple-ment-ed his in-come pick-ing co-conuts.. The fa-ther of one was re-port-ed miss-ing around 6 pm on Thurs-day, af-ter he left home and nev-er re-turned..
His clothes and a bunch of co-conuts were found un-der a co-conut tree near the coast-line but Mc Lean was not there.. Res-i-dents in Mt St George re-port-ed see-ing a body float-ing in the ocean yes-ter-day morn-ing and alert-ed the au-thor-i-ties.. Po-lice, the To-ba-go Emer-gency Man-age-ment Agency (TEMA) and Hunters’ Search and Res-cue Team (HSRT), who were in Good-wood search-ing for miss-ing tod-dler An-ge-lo To-bias-Plaza, re-spond-ed to the in-ci-dent.. HSRT leader Val-lence Ramb-harat said his
group re-trieved Mc Lean’s body af-ter be-ing asked to by po-lice.. The body was placed on the sand and cov-ered with leaves un-til the DMO ar-rived.. To-ba-go ACP Rishi Singh was at the scene as well and con-soled Mc Lean’s broth-er.. Griev-ing cowork-ers and friends de-scribed Mc Lean as an ex-treme-ly pleas-ant and easy-go-ing per-son.. Mario Pope, who worked with Mc Lean, said he was more than a col-league.. “He was a fun per-son.. He
likes to lime, en-joy him-self.. When we come from work, we used to make lil cook in the yard, play lil domi-noes.. He was a good fel-la,” he said be-fore break-ing down in tears.. An-oth-er cowork-er, Dex-ter Miller, said Mc Lean was a very cool and hard-work-ing em-ploy-ee.. “On be-half of the com-pa-ny, I would like to of-fer con-do-lences to the fam-i-ly,” Miller said.. He said the own-er of the com-pa-ny was dis-traught af-ter hear-ing
the news.. “The com-pa-ny is like fam-i-ly.. We hold to-geth-er in every sit-u-a-tion.. He was al-so liv-ing with some of his oth-er cowork-ers.. We al-ways around and to-geth-er.. It is not just a cowork-er that died, we see him as a fam-i-ly mem-ber.. We tak-ing it very hard,” Miller said.. Mt St George/Good-wood area rep-re-sen-ta-tive Megan Mor-ri-son vis-it-ed the scene and ex-pressed con-do-lences to the fam-i-ly.. She said she was par-tic-u-lar-ly sad-dened as it was
the sec-ond tragedy in her elec-toral dis-trict fol-low-ing An-ge-lo’s dis-ap-pear-ance five days ago.. “It is very sad to see a loss of life on the is-land, whichev-er way it hap-pened,” she said.
Mt St George death, Daniel Mc Lean, Tobago TEMA, HSRT search and rescue, coconut picking accident, Goodwood missing toddler