EVER since 24-year-old Navendra Hemrup, called “Vishal”, left the home he shared with his mother, she has not seen or heard from him. Kamma Jaikarran told the Guyana Chronicle yesterday that when her son left home on June 7, they used to reside in an apartment at Craig Street, Campbellville.
She now lives in Alberttown, and is asking that anyone with information about her son’s whereabouts contact her on telephone number 695-4134. She just wants to know that he is safe, and to urge him to return home.
She was not at home when he left, Jaikarran said, as she’d gone to spend time with her companion at his house.
But when she returned the following day, she realised her son was not there; that he’d upped and left without saying where he was going, which was unlike him.
After a quick check of his belongings, she also realised that he’d taken a few pieces of clothing with him.
Prior to his going missing, she said, “Vishal”, who turns 25 next month, operated a barber shop not far from the Kitty Police Station on Alexander Street, Kitty.
Upon realising that he was missing, Jaikarran said she not only reported the matter to the police, but also began asking after his whereabouts from some of his friends.
After speaking with some of them, she believes that he may very well have ventured into the interior, so as to escape his problems, because he owes some people money.
Friends told her that a customer of his had encouraged him to go in ‘the bush’ and work. Perhaps he did just that, she said.
What is worrisome, however, is that not once has he tried to call her since he left. And when she tries calling him on his cell-phone, somebody else answers. At one time, she said, the man at the other end of the line told her that he’d bought the ‘sim card’ from a man at North West District.
Jaikarran said that of late, she’d noticed that her son was acting depressed, but when she asked what was wrong, all he told her was that he was in heavy debt, but that he’d discuss it in detail with her later.