NINETEEN-YEAR-Old Oliva Holloway of 10 Charlie Street, Buxton, ECD and her two-year-old daughter, Divine Holloway have reportedly been missing since Monday.

Last evening, Oliva’s mother Janice Roberts told the Guyana Chronicle that the last time she had heard her daughter’s voice and had seen her granddaughter was on Monday morning, when the teenager was getting ready to

leave for work and had sent the child to kiss her goodbye while she was having a bath at the time.

The distraught woman said the young child attends the South Road Day Care Centre while the mother works at the Mothers’ Union Day Care Centre, a short distance away on Robb Street.

Roberts said the two did not return home on Monday, and she began to get worried. She even pulled a prank to see if she would be able to get on to her daughter, to see if her daughter would answer her phone and come home.

She related that this is not the first time her child had failed to return home, since she did it sometime last month; and persons at the workplace have been telling her that her daughter and granddaughter might be in Region 3, where the young lady has been seeing a young man.

Roberts said she faked a hospital admittance and had her son telephone the young lady, who answered the phone and, after being told by her brother that their mother was sick and in hospital, began enquiring about where her mother was and at which hospital.

She was told that her mother was at the Georgetown Public Hospital, but it is not clear whether the young lady had showed up there in search of her mother.

Asked about the father of her grandchild, Roberts said the young man whom the teenager claimed is the father of her child has disowned the child from birth, so she is left with the task of caring for the child. Roberts said that she is very concerned about the whereabouts and wellbeing of her granddaughter since she is still a very young girl child.

After the teenager had vanished on the first occasion, she had returned the following morning. Workers at her work place had related to her mother that she had been very friendly with a male, and he had been calling her workplace very often to speak with her.

Persons who know the whereabouts of 19-year-old Oliva Holloway and her infant child are asked to contact her mother on telephone number 666-7498.

(By Leroy Smith)