Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

Eighty-year-old San­cha­ree Ram­cha­ran clings to hope that one day her son, Omar­dath Ram­cha­ran, will re­turn home, but she fears that some­thing bad may have hap­pened to him.

Cry­ing as she sat on a chair at her Warn­er Street, Ste Madeleine, on Sun­day, the moth­er of ten said she would “look out” for him every day.

She last saw her son in Feb­ru­ary and since then rel­a­tives have been try­ing to find him. They even searched the hos­pi­tal, but no one has heard or seen him.

Ram­cha­ran said her son had re­ceived per­son­al threats be­fore his dis­ap­pear­ance and had told her he feared for his life.

The fa­ther of four had sep­a­rat­ed from his wife and lived in Friend­ship Vil­lage, Ste Madeleine.

“He tell me one of these days you will come and meet me dead. He say I alone is be there and no­body is know what is be go­ing on in my life. But I is come here to look for you be­cause I know you sick­ly.”

Ram­cha­ran said she was stay­ing with one of her daugh­ters, but de­cid­ed to re­turn home, when he went miss­ing, hop­ing that he would vis­it her.

“I come home and look­ing for him, but I can’t find him,” she said.

Ram­cha­ran said she still holds on to hope, but there are mo­ments when fear would take over and she would won­der if he was mur­dered.

She said she re­port­ed the threats against her son to the Ste Madeleine Po­lice Sta­tion, but the lack of feed­back from po­lice has left her be­liev­ing the mat­ter is not be­ing treat­ed se­ri­ous­ly.

Guardian Me­dia spoke to a se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer who as­sured that the mat­ter is be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed. Any­one with in­for­ma­tion is asked to con­tact the St Madeleine Po­lice Sta­tion or 800-TIPS.