21-year-old daughter of businessman abducted
Up to press time last evening, family members of Roreema Dookie, daughter of businessman Beharry Dookie, who was abducted on Thomas Street, North Cummingsburg, Georgetown, on Wednesday night, were hoping to be re-united with their loved one.

The police were still monitoring all telephone calls to the home and the whereabouts of the young woman are still unknown.

The police are mum on the matter, and are only prepared to say they are investigating.

The 21-year-old was reportedly kidnapped around 20:08 hrs Wednesday night shortly after she left classes at the International Business College on Thomas Street, Georgetown.

Beharry Dookie, popularly called ‘Nathoo’, told the Guyana Chronicle yesterday that he never received a ransom demand for the safe return of his daughter following her abduction on Wednesday night.

“I never receive a call for ransom and I don’t know where the newspapers got that news from,” he angrily stated.

The owner of Nathoo’s Liquor Restaurant and Grocery at Pike and Lamaha Streets in Kitty, whose daughter was abducted from her boyfriend’s car on Thomas Street, said they are presently working collaboratively with the police in monitoring the telephone calls to his home.

Beharry said he just wants his daughter back home where she belongs.

Beharry added that his daughter left home for classes at the International Business College at 5:00 pm Wednesday and when her classes ended at 8:00 pm, she had her boyfriend, Joel Oudkerk, waiting for her there.

It was when she was in his car that she was snatched and bundled into a waiting vehicle by unidentified men who, according to reports, beat Oudkerk until he was semi-conscious.

He has since received medical attention and is assisting the police with investigations.

The gunmen then sped off with Roreema, who had returned to Guyana on Tuesday after a vacation in Canada.

Dookie is enrolled in the Quantitative Methods (Association of Business Education) class and is in the diploma level class at the International Business College.