– suspected to be missing US citizen
POLICE yesterday discovered a badly-dehydrated and water-soaked man, believed to be the missing United States citizen, Kwame Rumel Jobroewet, who mysteriously disappeared on June 12 last, a few days after arriving in the country to bury his mother, Henrietta Browne, 95.

The limp, frail and almost lifeless man, with rib bones protruding, was reportedly found on the Conservancy dam aback of Mocha, East Bank Demerara, late yesterday afternoon.

When found, he was wearing a pair of khaki coloured trousers, a blue shirt – both torn, and no shoes. His entire body was covered with mud, and the sides of his insteps badly eaten away by maggots, suggesting that he had been lying in muddy water for several days.

He was initially rushed to the Diamond Regional Hospital, East Bank Demerara, then transferred to the GPHC around 19:00 hrs last night, after being stabilized.

Up to press time the Browns, who claimed that they were relatives from Company Path, Buxton, were in doubt that it could have been Jobronewet, who had visited their home and then left on June 12 to visit other relatives at Goodverwagting, also on the East Coast Demerara. That was the last they saw of him, they claimed.

The matter was reported to the police, and an intense search mounted following Kwame’s disappearance, but after no trace was found of him, relatives were forced to dispose of the body of the dead woman, who had been flown in from Canada to be buried in Guyana. She was buried two Mondays ago, relatives said.

They recalled that Kwame Jobronewet had migrated from Guyana to the United States about 43 years ago, and last returned to Guyana in 2004.

When last seen, he had reportedly stopped over at a shop to buy something to eat and had tendered a US$100 bill.
Police are continuing their investigations.