Latest update April 17th, 2025 8:39 PM
Missing St. Stanislaus Colleague teacher…Handbag, umbrella found in Botanical Gardens
By Romila Boodram
A brown handbag and a Digicel umbrella believed to be the property of missing St. Stanislaus teacher, Nyozi Goodman,
Missing: Nyozi Goodman
who disappeared three Sundays ago, was found in the Botanical Gardens around 16:30 hrs yesterday.
The handbag was identified by the teacher’s colleague, Najuma Greenidge, and the missing woman’s mother, Carol Greene, claimed that her daughter had an umbrella like the one they found.
According to the devastated mother, after her daughter went missing 14 days ago, she went to her Kitty apartment and removed all her items. She added that the Digicel umbrella and the bag (found in the Botanical Gardens) were not among the things she carried away.
The discovery was made after a group of friends, colleagues and family members of the 34-year-old teacher formed a search party and ventured out into the gardens. The team was headed by Social and Political Activist, Mark Benschop.
Kaieteur News understands that the search party decided to search the Botanical Gardens because a friend of the teacher dreamt that she found a body in a clump of bushes, and given the fact that the Garden is “bushy”.
According to Benschop, after combing through the area for a while, someone found a bag in the bush, next to a garbage heap, and just a short distance away, the umbrella was discovered.
After the items were identified, the police were called in and they were taken away.
Goodman, of William Street, Kitty, was last seen on July 6, last, with another teacher at the National Sports Hall where she had taken a few of her students to participate in the Inter-Secondary School Basketball Championships.
There are reports that the teacher told her students that she would be staying behind as she expected someone to pick her up and take her home. There has not been any news of her since that night.
Kaieteur News was told by a senior police rank that they were questioning the person who took the teacher to the Sports Hall. He said that although the person claimed that he did not pick up the teacher, they are still interrogating him.
Yesterday, Goodman’s mother said that she believes that the police are not doing enough to find her daughter.
“If I don’t call the police, they don’t call me and every time I call, they have nothing to tell me,” a devastated Greene said. “I know she had a Digicel umbrella but when I packed her stuff, I didn’t see it.”
The mother said that she believes that her daughter is still alive and well.
Social and Political Activist, Mark Benschop along with Goodman’s mother (in white), and other relatives searching for clues
“I know that she is out there somewhere and we will find her.”
Greenidge described the 34-year-old teacher as a very hard worker and a responsible person. “She would never leave to go anywhere without informing anyone.”
According to Benschop, he decided to make contact with the teacher’s relatives and formed a search party because he believed nothing is being done to locate the teacher.
“It is almost two weeks and the Guyana Teachers’ Union and the Ministry of Education have said nothing so I had to come out and assist the family,” the activist said.
The search will continue today.
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