Relatives still searching for missing Bush Lot driverRelatives of missing Bush Lot truck driver Rajnarine Hukumchand said persons claimed to have seen the man in Mahaica, though a search has since proved futile.

Rajnarine Hukumchand

According to the man’s brother Shurlan Hukumchand he received a call from a Mahaica resident last week who reported seeing “someone like Rajnarine” in the area. However, last Wednesday and Thursday, Shurlan said, he along with friends and relatives searched the area without any success. The 41-year-old truck driver had left his sister’s Happy Acres home more than a month ago to take a walk on the seawall and never returned. His relatives have been searching for him since then.

Yesterday Shurlan told Stabroek News that residents from the David Rose Housing Scheme, Unity and Lancaster reported seeing Rajnarine in the area. However, as they moved further along the East Coast villages like Clonbrook, Bee Hive and Supply there was no sign of Rajnarine. The man said he did not believe that it was indeed his brother that the Mahaica resident had seen because “Sunday night somebody else call and say that they see he in a shop in Mahaica so I send a friend to see if it was him but it was another Indian man. Is a real good thing we didn’t rush up there,” Shurlan reported.

Further, he said on October 23, a woman had called from a private number and told him not worry that his brother was fine. He said he did not recognize the woman’s voice and still has no idea who she could be. “The woman call and she say ‘Don’t be worried. He’s okay’ and when I asked her to talk to him the phone cut off,” Shurlan said. He complained too that the police have not been very helpful. He said he’d visited the Deputy Crime Chief about the matter and had been directed to an officer at the Sparendaam Police Station. However, he has not given the matter any attention. “They only got you running here and there…is money we got to be spending all the time and is not like we getting any help from them. They not even assisting with the searching. We doing everything by ourself,” Shurlan said.

Shurlan had told this newspaper that Rajnarine, also known as Jacob, has no history of mental illness, was not suffering from any disease neither was he an alcoholic. His brother, he said wasn’t the type of person to vanish for days at a time. When Rajnarine left Happy Acres on the morning of October 15, he was clad in a cream-coloured striped shirt; brown boots with a grey cap on his head. He had not been wearing any jewellery, though he did have his cellular phone and a small amount of cash, Shurlan said.

Shurlan said that his brother’s two young sons still call him and ask, “Cha-choo [uncle] where dada deh? When dada go come home?” It rips at his heart every time and mounts his frustration, he said.
Anyone who might have seen Rajnarine is asked to contact his brothers Shurlan or Vibert at telephone numbers 614-5308 and 609-1586, respectively.