POLICE are investigating the disappearance of Isai Jaime James, 16, who failed to return home after leaving for work in the hinterland, since August 19, 2019.

Reports indicate that his mother, Paula Ann James of Yarakita, North West, Region One, had left the boy in the care of his grandfather, Dennis Nunes, at Ideal Road, Waiakabra, Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

They reported that on August 19, 2019, the boy indicated that he wanted to seek work in the interior and travelled in the company of a friend, Romeo Jaime.
His grandfather noted that he did not give his permission and asked his grandson to set up a meeting with the man who was taking him into the interior.

The man said his grandson did not set up the meeting and left without permission.
Relatives said that, on August 19, in the evening, the man who allegedly took the boy from his grandfather’s home, called a female relative, indicating that they were in Bartica, en route to the hinterland.
It is alleged that the boy came out of the interior on September 8, 2019, with the man who had taken him to work.

Relatives said the boy’s mother contacted her son’s associate via cell phone, enquiring about her son, and was told that he was left in a car with another male on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

Further, it is alleged that the teen was at the home of woman, who reportedly knows everything about the arranged trip to the interior.
The mother of the missing boy said that, on August 28, she travelled to the woman’s home, and, after receiving no concrete information about her son’s location, she made a report at the Kuru Kuru Police Station.

The man, who took the boy to the interior, was reportedly summoned by the police and gave a conflicting report of himself and the boy coming out of the interior on September 8, in the company of another man.
Instigators said the information received, after questioning the man, was that they booked a hotel room in Georgetown, where they slept together.

They further indicated that they received reports of the man leaving to purchase food and was robbed, causing him to return to the hotel room.
It is alleged that, soon after, he left the facility, leaving the now-missing boy sleeping in a room with the other male companion.

Reports indicate that the man claimed he cannot remember the name of the hotel or its location in the City.