Kwame Rumel Jobronewet, the 66-year old United States-based Guyanese who disappeared  following a visit to a family home in Buxton is still missing and relatives want the police to work harder on the case.

Kwame Rumel Jobronewet

The man’s cousin, Paulette Charles, told Stabroek News last evening that relatives in Guyana and overseas are still ‘keeping their hopes together’ that Jobronewet will be found soon. She said the US embassy has been very cooperative in the search for her cousin. She also noted that the police should work harder in their efforts in locating the man.

Jobronewet came to Guyana with other relatives to pay his final respects to his mother Vivian Henrietta Brown, who died in Canada and whose remains were flown to Guyana. He left these shores over 40 years ago and made only two short trips home since migrating when he changed his name from Romie Johnston. Last Friday when he arrived in Guyana, the man left Charles’ Goedverwatging, East Coast Demerara home for another cousin’s home in Buxton. The following day the cousin at Buxton was contacted and he informed that Jobronewet had left since 3 pm the previous day.

Charles told Stabroek News that because her cousin had been away from Guyana for a number of years, he may have become somewhat “disoriented and confused” from the number of changes he would have seen and may have lost his way in the process.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Kwame Rumel Jobronewet, is asked to contact telephone number 222-2688 or the nearest police station.