Search still on for
missing estate workers
By Mark Ramotar
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MISSING:
Maikhram Sawh, called ‘Bharrat’ and his wife, Jaso, in happier
times.
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MISSING: Sam Persaud Taran Nauth, called Shammie
| POLICE yesterday
continued their search for the two Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO)
employees, who mysteriously disappeared on Saturday last while working in
an area aback Vigilance, which neighbours the violence-prone and troubled
East Coast Demerara village of Buxton.
Up to
late yesterday afternoon, there was still no clue as to the whereabouts of
Sam Persaud Tarran Nauth, called ‘Shammie’, 37, and Maikhram Sawh, called
‘Bharrat’, 46.
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Kamini
Taran Nauth, 34, wife of ‘Shammie’, and their three daughters,
Divya, seven months, Sarah, 6, and Lisa, 4.
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The two GUYSUCO
workers went missing sometime around noon on Saturday, prompting a
widespread but fruitless search for them in the Vigilance back lands late
that afternoon and into the night.
As the
search intensified yesterday, aided by a GUYSUCO aircraft, relatives,
friends and neighbours of the two men flocked to their homes to comfort
their immediate families and to offer words of encouragement and hope that
the men are still alive and would return home soon.
Most of
the visitors, however, could not hide their ‘gut’ suspicion that Shammie
and Bharrat might have been kidnapped. Up to last evening, however, there
was no ransom demand or communication of any
kind
made to the families of the missing workers.Surrounded by scores of
relatives, friends and neighbours, Shammie’s 34-year-old wife, Kamini, was
lying in a hammock under the front part of their home in Fernandes Street,
Enterprise, in a grief-stricken state when this newspaper
visited
Tuesday, May 24,
2005
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