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‘Trafficking in persons’ and a strange, frightening request

Jun 07, 2012 Letters

 

DEAR EDITOR,
I read the news item about ‘trafficking in persons’, which warned about “the virulence and persistence of the plague of trafficking in persons over the past two decades….”
Such trafficking might have been around much longer than that, and it would be interesting to know how many young women – and men – suddenly disappeared in years past, never to be seen or heard from again.
A few weeks ago, I recounted the following personal experience to a chap in Guyana which I had dismissed until the subject of trafficking in persons surfaced in recent years.
Shortly after joining the Civil Service as a 19-year-old in 1950, cycling back to work after lunch, a well-built man, aged about mid-30s, in a cream suit, Panama hat and ‘Secret Service’ (dark) glasses, would occasionally join me near my work place.  We would exchange greetings – a ‘hello-and-goodbye’ contact.  Nothing more was ever said.
One day he asked where I worked and I told him. Shortly afterwards, he invited me to have a cream soda with him at Brown Betty’s, but, first of all, I must lock my handbag in a cupboard at work and he would accompany me up the three flights of stairs and wait in the outside room while I did so.
A strange, frightening request, I thought, and had no intention of doing as requested. But, with no one around, how to get out of it?
As fate would have it, the office administrator/clerk was still at his desk.  I told him about the man in the waiting room, he flew up from his chair into the outside room – the man had disappeared.  He never approached me again.
Alarmingly, I would never have been able to identify him or his features because of the low-brimmed Panama hat and dark glasses. I only knew he was well-built, fair-skinned, with ‘nappy’ hair! Now, knowing how drugs could be put in drinks and food, to render people helpless, I wonder what his intention was?
Geralda Dennison

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