The husband of hotel owner Roseanne Hall says he is suspicious about the circumstances under which his wife mysteriously disappeared a week ago and insisted that something “fishy” is going on.
Meanwhile, he said, a female cousin of the woman is in custody assisting with investigations.
Hall was last seen leaving a hairdressing salon on Wednesday last. Her chauffeur, who also happens to be her ex-husband, picked her up and she went back to her hotel where she collected $22,000 from the cashier and left with the man, her husband said.
Speaking with this newspaper yesterday Romeo Rockerfeller, who married Hall in March last year, said staff were told by the woman’s ex-husband, who was also employed as a painter at the hotel that she had travelled to Suriname and left him in charge. According to Rockerfeller, the man had returned to the hotel on Wednesday afternoon and every day after that, until Saturday when he too disappeared, collecting money in the process. He said recent counts by staff showed that the man had collected more than $250,000.
The ex-husband had also started effecting changes at the hotel, firing staff and employing new persons, this newspaper was told.
Recounting the events leading to his wife’s disappearance, Rockerfeller said he left Guyana on January 23 for Trinidad to be part of the carnival celebrations there. They had arranged that she would join him there on February 9.
He said his wife rang him on Wednesday and said she was at her hairdresser’s. “So she tell me that when she get home she would call me because usually she called every night since I went to Trinidad but I didn’t hear from her that Wednesday night; Thursday whole day nothing, same thing in the night. But I still didn’t take it for anything because I said she probably busy,” the man explained. He said he tried calling his wife on her cellular phone numbers but all those calls went unanswered.
The man said his fears increased on Friday night when a member of the hotel staff rang him to say that no one had seen or heard from his wife for days.
He said he booked a flight on Saturday and came to Guyana.
The man told this newspaper that it was highly unusual for his wife to leave Guyana just like that to go to Suriname without putting things in place.
“That is not she at all. She don’t do that. She would go to Suriname sometimes but there are numbers there that I could contact her on but all those numbers ring out, so I don’t think she’s there because I would have known,” the man said.
The man said it was also strange that the ex-husband was given the keys to his wife’s safe. He said too that his wife’s bankcard was tampered with, her laptop taken and many other items missing.
“Something fishy is happening. She would never leave home for a whole week just like that. This never happens, something really fishy happening,” the man said as he shook his head in disbelief.
Rockefeller said when he arrived in the country on Saturday night he rang up his wife’s ex-husband who said the woman had given him a power of attorney to control the business since she had travelled to Suriname.
“I called him and I asked him to come and show me the document, but he never came
