A distraught father is seeking the public’s help to find his 18-year-old son, British national Dominic Michael Lloyd Bernard, who has not been heard from since he travelled to Guyana last October.
Andrew Bernard told a press conference yesterday that his son left their home in the United Kingdom on October 14, 2015, to travel to Guyana for the first time. He was supposed to have been visiting his god brother, Aaron Hing, who resides in Berbice.
However, the father, who flew to Guyana in search of his son, said it appeared that Hing “was unaware that Dominic was making this trip.”
The teary-eyed man appealed for any assistance he can get in locating his missing son, who will be celebrating his nineteenth birthday tomorrow.
Dominic, who lives with his father, his father’s wife and two sisters in London, travelled to Guyana alone.
He departed London’s Gatwick Airport on Caribbean Airlines Flight BW 903 at 12:50pm and later arrived in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad the same day at 5:30pm. He then boarded connecting flight BW 483 from Trinidad at 8:40pm and later arrived in Guyana at 9:50pm. “We know Dominic cleared customs. After that we have no information,” the father noted.
Andrew is appealing to anyone who flew on those flights or who may have sat with his son or may have spoken to Dominic to contact him, his agent or the police. “We ask anyone who may have seen him board a taxi or saw him anywhere else in Georgetown or Guyana to contact us immediately. Any bit of information, however small, will be helpful,” he stressed.
He said his son was scheduled to return to London on November 6.
The father said that there is no reason why his son would want to run away and he had no problems at home and there were no indications of problems otherwise.
Andrew said that over the weekend, he contacted Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum, “who made himself instantly accessible and immediately assigned a team to investigate my son’s disappearance.”
Dominic is six feet tall, with a medium build. His father said he would have last been seen wearing a pair of blue jeans, a white sweatshirt with a black jacket. He was also wearing white Nike sneakers and had one suitcase and one piece of hand luggage.
Anyone with information about the missing teen is asked to contact the nearest police station or Andrew’s agent in Guyana, Jessica Hatfield, on 695-9065, or email him at andrew@andlin.co.uk.
