– into whereabouts of missing Canadian citizen

POLICE in ‘B’ Division have detained three persons for questioning as they continue their investigations into the disappearance of a 23-year-old
Canadian citizen from his grandfather’s residence in East Berbice, Corentyne.

Nicholas Jaipaul, of Canada and Number 69 Village, East Berbice, Corentyne, was last seen by his grandfather on Sunday evening, around 19:00hrs, just as the 86-year-old was about to retire to bed.

On Monday morning, at around 05:00hrs, Nicholas’s grandfather, Ramkissoon Jaipaul, received a call on the landline phone saying that the lad had been kidnapped and that the kidnapper was demanding a ransom for his release.

Mr Jaipaul said he got so confused and flustered after receiving the call, all he could do is to appeal to whoever has his grandchild to return him safely.

“He is a good boy; he does not go anywhere or get into trouble. He don’t even have friends here, so whoever have him, please do not harm him and return him to us,” the old man pleaded.

According to his granddad, Nicholas was scheduled to visit his other grandfather the said Monday morning he went missing. He said the lad had already packed a bag and laid it on his bed, while all his other belongings were in their normal place in his bedroom.

The family is at their wits end, trying to figure out who or why Nicholas was taken. There were neither signs of forced entry into the home, nor of a struggle.

‘B’ Division Commander Calvin Brutus has reassured the missing lad’s relatives that all leads are being pursued, including a request for a record of all calls to the landline to validate his granddad’s claim that he’d received a call saying that Nicholas had been kidnapped.  The call log on the phone shows an incoming call at the time as per the grandfather claims, but unfortunately, the caller’s ID had been blocked.
The police are asking that anyone with information regarding the missing young man please make contact with the nearest police station or call the family on
338-4222.

Nicholas was in Guyana on vacation since January, and due to the COVID-19 outbreak here, he was unable to return to Canada.