Police have assured relatives of slain city businessman Farouk Kalamadeen that they are continuing investigations but were unable to provide an update in this regard, since no new information is forthcoming in the case.
Kalamadeen’s sister-in-law Bibi Shadick when contacted said the police returned earlier in the day and took statements from the man’s wife as well as his son Irfaan who was the first of family relatives to identify the body which was found in Cowan Street Kingston, as that of his father’s.
Asked to comment on the pace of investigations, Shadick who speaks on behalf of her grieving relatives said that she had no doubt that the police were doing all they could to find the perpetrators of the act, “but it’s just that they have not come up with anything concrete as yet.”
“It’s hard for us to be satisfied when no one has been held responsible because we still don’t know why this happened and so many people’s lives have been snuffed out before and nothing is forthcoming,” she said.
Farouk Kalamadeen disappeared on April 2 while he was engaged in his usual morning jogging exercise on the Houston Public Road. Last Wednesday, his headless body was discovered in Cowan Street, Kingston and two searches by police and relatives in the nearby trench for his head proved fruitless. His head was found three days after his body, in a North Road canal, a stone’s throw away from his business place. There has been no word from the police on any significant breakthrough in their probe although they questioned four men following the discovery of the body. Kalamadeen was alive for several weeks following his abduction.
The kidnapping of Kalamadeen and the discovery of his body generated a lot of interest both locally and in the Guyana diaspora.
