“I need to know what happened to my son”

…mother pleads for Police to reopen case of ‘missing’ son

It was three years ago – on October 15, 2014 – that 29-year-old Troy Greenidge of Lot 8 John Fernandes Housing Scheme at Industrial Site, Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was last seen and his mother Seeta Persaud is still seeking answers regarding his disappearance.
The grieving woman visited Guyana Times International and once again shared the chilling story of the last day she saw her son.

Greenidge, a miner, had just returned home from the interior and upon his return, he left his home on October 15, to visit his employer who lived at Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD). The purpose of the visit was to uplift his salary as was customary.
When he left his home, the then 26-year-old father of two boys was clad in black three quarter pants, a blue jersey, white and black Nike sneakers and his hair was braided. He never returned.
The following day (October 16, 2014), Persaud received a call from her sister informing her that Greenidge was reportedly arrested by Police.
As such, the woman rushed to the Providence Police Station, East Bank Demerara where her son was supposedly held and made enquires but was told that no such person was in custody there.
Searches were made at the Brickdam and other Police stations with the same result.
Persaud told this publication that she returned to the Providence Police Station and spoke to an officer, whose name was given as ‘Singh’, where she made a report.
It was then that she was told that there was an incident in Greenfield Park, Providence, EBD, where a woman saw three men in her area, close to her home, and sounded an alarm screaming “Thief! Thief!”
Two of the men reportedly ran away and the third person, allegedly Greenidge, stayed. It was reported that Greenidge, who was in the area to reach someone concerning employment, was picked up by a man whose name was given as ‘Barry’ from the said area of Providence.
When Police Officers reported to the scene, they were reportedly told by ‘Barry’ that they (he and others) already “dealt with the matter”.
The distraught mother recalled that the said Police Officer (Singh), who filed Greenidge’s initial missing persons report, arrested the man and reportedly told Persaud that the matter was being investigated.
According to Persaud, she visited ‘Barry’s’ wife who reportedly told her that her husband did apprehend Greenidge but subsequently released him.
The grief stricken woman relayed to this publication that she continued to visit the Police station and even reached out to a number of news entities where she told her story.
Following an airing of a news report on her son’s disappearance, she received a call from an unknown number. Persaud said “It was a woman, who asked me if I ain’t find my son as yet. I said no and she said that she is from the said area in Providence where Troy went missing. She told me that she hear them bai talking and saying how they collect me son, beat he and killed him and buried his body somewhere right there, in Providence using an excavator”.
This information was reported to the Providence Police Station. However, searches in the area by Police proved futile and the matter was thrown once more on the proverbial back burner.
Persaud continued to reach out to the authorities to locate her son or even his body but said she received the ‘royal run around’. The woman even visited the Police Headquarters at Eve Leary, where again no assistance was provided.
However, in December 2016, a male human skeleton was discovered on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway about 400 yards from the Splashmins Resort.
A bottle suspected to contain a poisonous substance was found some 40 feet away from the remains. Next to the bottle were cigarettes, a lighter, sneakers, socks and a T-shirt.
Police suspect that the remains are that of a male of Amerindian heritage.
The remains were reportedly clad in three quarter black pants; similar to what Greenidge was last seen wearing. Persaud revealed that she was never allowed to see the remains and to date, it has not been identified.
The mother is pleading with Police to reopen the investigation as, “I need closure to this, I need to know what happen to my son; today make three years since I saw him. This is hard, it really hard”.