TWENTY-year-old Marcus Anthony Joseph Peters, also known as “Black Boy” of ‘D’ Field Sophia, father of a 15-month-old baby girl, has been missing since Sunday, July 5, 2015.According to information reaching the Guyana Chronicle, the man, who was expected to visit a house party with his cousin, never showed up for the party; and while his reputed wife thought he was at the party, his cousin thought that he was at home with his reputed wife.
Speaking with this newspaper on Tuesday afternoon, Karen Boodram, the missing man’s mother, said that they made a report to the police last Friday concerning the man’s whereabouts.
According to the woman who resides outside of Guyana, but flew in after hearing of her son’s disappearance, the family does not have a clue as to where the young man is and calls to his mobile phone are going straight to voicemail.
She explained that her son’s reputed wife told her that she packed up and moved out of the house which she and the young man along with another cousin shared, after he left to go to the house party although she had disapproved of it.
The woman said that her daughter-in-law added that her son had left to go to the house party with his 18- year- old male cousin, but when the cousin was contacted, he said that all he did was invite the now missing man to the party, but the man did not go with him; instead, he left him standing on the corner with two friends. The house party was supposed to be held in ‘C’ Field Sophia.
Meanwhile, Peters’s reputed wife thought he was at the party and decided to leave the home and go to her mother. However, later that night Peters telephoned the woman’s mother and asked if his reputed wife was there and the woman’s mother responded in the positive.
He then informed them that he was coming over to meet with her shortly, but according to reports which reached this publication the man never showed up.
Asked about the two males in whose company the man was last seen, relatives said that they are in the business of doing construction work and incidentally are presently working on a property opposite the home where Peters, his reputed wife and cousin lived. When asked if they had any idea as to his whereabouts, the two young men explained that they left him on the corner and went home on the night in question.
Karen Boodram said her son’s reputed wife told her that they never really had issues, except for a short period when she observed that the man was going to work and returning very late at night, or sometimes after midnight.
A missing person report was filed at the Turkeyen Police Station and statements were taken from the cousin of the missing man, as well as his now worried reputed wife whose names was given as Christine and from whom statements were taken.
Marcus Anthony Joseph Peters is employed as a janitor at the Bank of Guyana where he started out two months ago and prior to that, worked as a mason around the community of Sophia and other areas wherever jobs were available.
He returned to Guyana about two years now after his reputed wife became pregnant. Family members are keeping their fingers crossed with respect to locating the man and ensuring that he is found.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the man is asked to contact his family members on 669 9036, 681 5155, 663 9739 or the nearest police station.

By Leroy Smith