Rishard Khan

rishard.khan@guardian.co.tt

The niece of Man­dev­ille, Ja­maica May­or Dono­van Mitchell went miss­ing in T&T over the week­end, and he has joined the fam­i­ly’s call for lo­cals to come for­ward with any in­for­ma­tion on her where­abouts.

In an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Mitchell said Ja­maica-born Ki­malee Lar­mont John’s home on the is­land is next to his and the fam­i­ly is dis­traught.

“Right now, the en­tire fam­i­ly is hurt­ing. Peo­ple are cry­ing every day and as the days go by, (it) be­comes a lit­tle bit more tense be­cause the sur­vival rate for a miss­ing per­son...di­min­ish­es as the mo­ments fly,” he said.

“We’re mak­ing that ap­peal to...any­body who knows any­thing to talk to the po­lice (if) any­body knows of her where­abouts.”

Ki­malee’s sis­ter, Shinelle Stew­art, who lives in the Unit­ed King­dom, said she fre­quent­ly speaks with her. She said the fam­i­ly did not re­ceive any ran­som de­mand but not­ed it was out of char­ac­ter for her to sim­ply dis­ap­pear.

“I’ve heard a few sto­ries here and there (with) peo­ple say­ing that she might have run off...as her sis­ter, I speak to her...if not every day, at least once a week, that’s not in her char­ac­ter,” she said.

“She’s got goals, she had things that she was work­ing on and she was per­sis­tent with her goals so she would nev­er, ever, ever, just run off. Es­pe­cial­ly work­ing so hard.”

It’s a be­lief the Ja­maican May­or al­so shared. He said John vis­it­ed Ja­maica ear­li­er this year and was ex­pect­ed to vis­it again at the end of De­cem­ber.

Mitchell thanked the Caribbean As­so­ci­a­tion of Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Au­thor­i­ties, the Ja­maican High Com­mis­sion­er to T&T and oth­er diplo­mat­ic en­ti­ties for their as­sis­tance to the fam­i­ly so far.

Apart from her hus­band, Stew­art said John had no oth­er rel­a­tives in T&T.

John works as a se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer at a ware­house com­plex on Mis­sion Road, Freeport, for the com­pa­ny Um­brel­la Se­cu­ri­ty.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, she left her home at Or­ange Field Road, Chase Vil­lage, at about 5.40 am on Sat­ur­day to em­bark on a five-minute walk to the St Mary’s junc­tion to be picked up by a com­pa­ny ve­hi­cle to go to work. De­spite con­tact­ing the dri­ver to in­di­cate she was on her way, she nev­er showed up.

The TTPS said a re­port was made by her hus­band on Sun­day and the in­ves­ti­ga­tor, as­sist­ed by the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit, has record­ed state­ments and in­ter­viewed sev­er­al peo­ple. The po­lice said use­ful in­for­ma­tion has been ob­tained and the in­ves­ti­ga­tion is con­tin­u­ing.

Any­one with in­for­ma­tion on her where­abouts can con­tact their near­est po­lice sta­tion or the Hunters Search and Res­cue Team at 475-4350 or 320-1167.