GINGER GROUND, St Elizabeth – A Jamaican mother who resides in the Cayman Islands is now making preparations to return home after her two teenaged sons drowned in a tank at a family-owned home in this rural community on Sunday.

Yvonne Reynolds was notified on the weekend that her sons, Christopher Parkinson, 16 and Jayson Parkinson, 14 had been found Sunday afternoon drowned in an 11-foot tank at a home owned by the family, a day after they went missing.

The mother of four, who migrated last December to the neighbouring Caribbean territory to earn a better living, is now expected to fly in to begin preparations for the burial of her two youngest sons.

“I screamed and shouted to Almighty God,” recalled the boy’s aunt, Louise Reynolds-Green, who found the bodies just hours after they had begun a search for the missing siblings on Sunday. “Only God knows…”

She said her nephews were like twins, well-mannered and promising young men, who had grown even closer since their mother migrated last year. “They did everything together and now them gone together,” she lamented.

Reynolds-Green said the boys – who lived with a guardian at their home which is some distance from the family home where their bodies were found – were not at home Saturday evening when their guardian returned from shopping.

The guardian subsequently raised an alarm after they had not returned by Sunday morning and notified the police.

The family theorise that the two had gone to the family home to get fruits and play and had gone for a swim in the tank, which measures some 11 feet deep and has eight feet of water.

Christopher attended the Lacovia High School while Jayson attended the Santa Cruz Primary and Junior High School.