UNITED States citizen, 67-year-old Kwame Rumel Jobronewet, also known as Romie Johnston, has been reported missing in Guyana by his relatives.

The overseas-based Guyanese man was last seen on Friday by family members he had come home with for his mother’s funeral.

Speaking to the Guyana Chronicle yesterday, one relative, who asked that his name be withheld, said that Jobronewet arrived at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) with family members from the U.S. and Canada on Friday morning and they all travelled to his home at Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara.

The California-based man then asked one of his brothers to take him to his mother’s residence in Buxton, another ECD village at about noon the same day.

The worried family member recounted that following the visit at the Buxton house, where a female cousin was house-sitting, it was reported to them by the woman that Jobronewet had left at about 15:00hs to return to Goedverwagting.

But he never turned up.
The relative said that his cousin has been living in the U.S. for more than 40 years and has not been back to Guyana frequently in all of that time.

He stated that the family is of the belief that the man may have suffered a loss of memory and may have lost his way, further describing Jobronewet as “a bit of an eccentric”.

A police report was made on Saturday at the Vigilance Police Station, also on the ECD, after the man still did not return home.

This newspaper contacted the Vigilance Police Station, and it was confirmed that a report was made and reports were sent out to other locations with a description of the man, but no headway has been made on the case as yet.

The relative said that the family has been searching all over, and had received reports that the man was sighted at the Berbice car park in Georgetown, Victoria and Beterverwagting, both of them ECD villages.

He said that all of these places have been checked out but to no avail.

He added that two of Jobronewet’s sisters and one of his two brothers are still in Guyana hoping for word of the man’s whereabouts.

The other brother had departed, and Jobronewet was booked to leave for the U.S. on Tuesday last, the relative stated.

A report was subsequently made to the U.S. embassy.

The family is appealing to anyone who may have seen their relative to contact them on telephone number 222-2688 or the nearest police station.
CAPTION: MISSING: U.S. resident Kwame Rumel Jobronewet, aka Romie Johnston