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Families of missing seniors seek end to mystery
Almost three months after her mother mysteriously vanished from the Barnwell North Mocha East Bank Demerara area, Claudette Pancham said that relatives have not given up hope.
On November 17, 2012, 82 year old Margaret Harris, a broom vendor in the community, left for the lands aback of the Mocha village around 13:30 hours but never returned.
Two weeks after Harris’ disappearance, another elderly person vanished without a trace. This time it was 74-year-old Morris John. Despite efforts by local law enforcement officers, relatives, friends and community members to locate the two missing persons, no trace of the senior citizens has surfaced.
“For the past several weeks we have been frantic looking for our missing mother and it has not been easy we get help from some persons who helped search… we send out fliers and people keep promising to be on the lookout so that if she turn up anywhere we gon know”, Harris’ daughter Claudette Pancham told Kaieteur News yesterday.
Margaret Harris
Pancham said that ranks from the joint services also assisted her in the search for her 82 year old mother.
“A member of the joint services who knew my mother organized a team and they used a helicopter to scour the area where she was last seen.”
The woman however expressed dissatisfaction on the administration’s stance on such issues.
“I think if the government had put a proper system in place we had at least had clues on how to locate two missing senior citizens I think things like having dogs trained to track missing persons would be useful in such cases but we don’t have these resources. The police could only use what they have”.
Pancham stated that all the family needs now is closure.
“We long for closure on the issue even if she turns up dead”.
She noted that it is quite strange how these two well known community members and easygoing elderly people could have gone missing in this manner.
Harris was last seen wearing a blue dress, black shoes and a straw hat. She ventured in the farmlands aback of Mocha having her cutlass and two dogs with her. The dogs had however returned home without their master.
Meanwhile, Morris John who lives in the farming area was last seen clad in grey jeans, long boots and a blue cap. He had in his possession his lighter, a torch light and a knife.
However his relatives have since lost hope of finding him. A woman who identified herself as Lorna Richards, John’s daughter-in-law, said that the families have exhausted their resources in their attempts to find him.
Morris John
“We glad to find he but right now we fed up we can’t do nothing really, police help we lil bit we want know what happen wid he but we can’t do nothing now.”
Persons knowing the whereabouts of these two missing people are asked to contact 674-0638 or 688-2277 for John and the Harris family on telephone number 217-0338.
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