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Car and taxi driver, 55, missing
-relatives fear the worst
With carjacking making a grand return to the local criminal landscape within the past year, relatives of 55-year-old taxi driver Colin Clarke fear the worst after he and his silver-grey Toyota Allion motor car disappeared since Friday.
Missing Taxi driver Colin Clarke
Clarke, who is popularly called “Ole Boy” of Crane Housing Scheme, was reportedly last seen Friday afternoon on the West Coast Demerara where he operates.
His distraught sister, Maureen Clarke, is convinced that something bad has happened to her brother since he is not the type to stay away from home for long periods without informing relatives.
“I don’t know if somebody hire him and do he something. Since Friday we haven’t seen or heard from him. The police at Vreed en Hoop say they have no trace of the car,” Maureen Clarke said.
She told this newspaper that the car HC 4993 is owned by her niece’s mother. Clarke will usually pick it up every morning from Sister’s Village to carry out his daily work.
He would normally return the car around 19:00 hours every day, but this did not happen on Friday last.
Another sister, Gwendolyn Clarke, said that on Friday she received a telephone call from her brother’s daughter, whose mother owns the car.
“He daughter call me about minutes to ten, rowing about the car, how Colin didn’t bring in the car. I told her to cool down, that something must be happen. I then call my sister, Maureen, and she confirmed that Colin did not come home,” Gwendolyn Clarke explained.
The following day, the police were contacted and along with relatives, they began making enquiries about his whereabouts.
With every passing day, relatives’ hopes of finding Clarke alive are dwindling.
“I fear something bad happen. My brother is dead; my brother is not alive,” wailed Maureen Clarke.
“Tomorrow (Tuesday) is my birthday and I can’t see my brother,” she added.
Clarke’s disappearance comes exactly one month after another taxi driver, Shurland Dalloo, went missing.
Dalloo’s body was found one week later in a canal at Onverwagt, No 27, West Coast Berbice.
The fully clad and decomposing remains were found in a desolate area that is accessible by dam, about three and a half miles off the West Berbice Public Road.
Dalloo also operated on West Coast Demerara but was based at Parika. His car too, a silver grey Toyota Carina, has not been recovered.
Police believe that the taxi driver was taken to the location and slain.
His corpse with its head bashed in was then dumped into the canal and covered with weeds.
Meanwhile police on the East Coast of Demerara are still searching from a silver grey Toyota Premio which was stolen from its owner last Saturday night at Bachelor’s Adventure.
This newspaper understands that the driver of the car, who hails from Mahaica, had picked up three men to take them to Bachelor’s Adventure, about seven miles away.
When the car reached Church Road, Bachelor’s Adventure, the men held up the driver and relieved him of the car.
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