Mystery surrounds the disappearance of a young doctor and his fiancé who have not been seen since Saturday, when they travelled to the city.
Dr Samsundar Lakeram of Non Pariel East Coast Demerara (ECD) and his fiancée, Radica ‘Davi’ Dwarka, of Mon Repos, ECD, have not been seen since they left for Georgetown on Saturday morning in his car, PKK 5194. The clothing they were last seen wearing, minus their underwear, were discovered folded neatly in his car, which was found on Sunday morning abandoned behind the Eve Leary Police Station, along the Georgetown seawall.
According to Lakeram’s relatives, the clothes and other items that were found in the car were all “neat.”
The son of the owner of the Best Buy Hardware Store in Non Pariel had left his home and shortly after picked up his fiancée telling relatives he was travelling to the city.
The young man’s sister, Radha, said he left their home around 10 am on Saturday to travel to Georgetown where he would have repaired his lap top computer and purchased a phone. “That is the last thing we know and when he didn’t come home we start to call his phone but it was off,” the young woman said. She said her brother was expected home before 6 pm on Saturday, as he was expected to go out with some friends. She said they become very worried when he had not returned by nightfall as he never stayed out late.
The next morning his father made a report to the Vigilance Police Station and they later learnt that the car was found and members of the family along with those of Dwarka rushed to the scene. The family helped the police to search but they found nothing.
Scores of villagers congregated yesterday morning at the home of the Lakerams and they could be overheard talking about what a wonderful person he was while others were chanting Hindu prayers for his safe return.
Meanwhile, in the village of Mon Repos residents were also lamenting the disappearance of the young woman whom they said was a very jolly person. “She one does live with she father and mother and I know how dem feel it, we hope she come back safe,” one female villager said.
The young woman’s father, Ramnarine ‘Chato’ Dwarka, said yesterday that information should be sought from the police Criminal Investigation Department (CID). “Right now I can’t say nothing until I feel straight again when I hear from me daughter or know that she alive then I will feel straight,” the grieving man said.
He said the disappearance of his first of two children has really taken a toll on him; so much so that he has not eaten since Saturday evening. “I say when I see me child again then I go eat. I can’t eat now,” he said. His younger daughter is married and he, his wife, Whelema, and Davi share the home. “We does sit down and eat together. Is we three and now I ent know whey she deh,” the man lamented.
Dwarka said he usually woke up around the same time as his daughter and ensures he fetches water for her bath. “We really close as a family and now this…”
He said since the families had publicized the disappearance of their two children, they had been receiving a number of crank calls. “Last night [Sunday night] somebody call and say how deh find dem in Diamond [East Bank Demerara] and we went till there and nothing. Then somebody call and say dem find bodies a back of Enterprise [East Coast Demerara] but nothing again.” The man said before they proceeded to Enterprise they contacted the police who stated that they had received no such report.
“But we say we go still go because the public does know sometime before the police. But when we go the place flooded. Water reaching till to you neck and is nothing,” the man said.
He said he wished that someone would call him with a real tip instead of the many crank calls.
He said when the car was found his daughter’s purse with her identification card and other documents were found but no valuables, including some cash that she had on her person, were found. The computer was not found. The police took control of the purse and other documents but handed over $120 in twenty-dollar bills to the father. “I have this,” he said, pulling the money out of his pocket. “And this morning I pull the money out of me pocket and I look at it because I know it is me daughter money and I want to know where she deh.”
According to Davi’s parents, she and Lakeram have been dating for the past two years but they knew each other a while before then and they were planning to get married. They met while Lakeram was doing his internship at the hospital and she was working as a clerk at the same institution.
The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) issued a press release yesterday saying that Lakeram had not been working at the institution since July last year. His sister yesterday said her brother had completed his internship at the hospital last year and was expected to become a doctor on staff some time this month.
The hospital said Dwarka had been working at the hospital since 2005 and was still employed there.