An­na-Lisa Paul

A search is on for a for­eign­er em­ployed with the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Prop­er­ty De­vel­op­ment Co Ltd (Nipdec) who was re­port­ed miss­ing last week. Project man­ag­er Bernard Ca­puno was last seen on Au­gust 2, leav­ing his apart­ment at Si­wala Street, Curepe. Ca­puno, 37, a Fil­ipino na­tion­al was re­port­ed miss­ing by neigh­bours af­ter he failed to re­turn home from work. St Joseph po­lice yes­ter­day con­firmed that a miss­ing per­son's re­port had been filed.

The T&T Guardian learnt that the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit (AKU) is aware of the mat­ter and was in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­ap­pear­ance. Up to yes­ter­day, there was no in­for­ma­tion lead­ing to Ca­puno's where­abouts and his cell­phone re­mains switched off. Ca­puno was seen leav­ing his apart­ment last Thurs­day, wear­ing a brown jer­sey bear­ing a Nipdeec lo­go, black pants and black shoes. Neigh­bours told po­lice they be­lieve Ca­puno had been on his way to work.

Po­lice said Ca­puno's Mit­subishi Galant car was al­so miss­ing. Al­though they have not ruled out foul play, po­lice were un­will­ing to spec­u­late about the dis­ap­pear­ance as they do not have any ev­i­dence to sug­gest Ca­puno was kid­napped. PC Ri­ley, of the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion, is con­tin­u­ing in­quiries.