Help me find my parents

CAMILLE MARINA James, 22, last saw her parents when she was five years old. But she remembers them and yesterday, the young woman made a tearful plea: “I want to find my mother and father.” James grew up with an elder brother, whom she is also seeking to find. Five years ago she began searching for her family but has had no luck to date. Her birth certificate says she was born at Third Street, La Romaine and she has gone from door to door on the street seeking information without success. Yesterday, frustrated by unsuccessful checks for adoption proceedings dating back to 1983 in the San Fernando Magistrates’ Court, James made an emotional public appeal for help in finding her long lost family.

At age five, James was put up for adoption in the Magistrates’ Court. “That was the last time I saw my mother and father. I remember that morning. There were people in the court,” she recalled. James was adopted by My me and Kissoon Rampersad of Diamond Village, near San Fernando and lived with her adopted parents until recently. She learned sewing with YTEPP. “I cannot go on without my mother.” The birth certificate she obtained last week listed her mother’s name as Chandroutee Hanif, formerly Ramsubhag, of Third Street, La Romaine. Her father’s name was not on it, but James said based on records at the San Fernando General Hospital, her father’s name is Emanuel Haniff. “I went to Third Street but no one knew my mother or father,” James said.

“I checked the Red House, Births and Deaths and the ID card office, but nothing,” she added. James went to Coffee Street and knocked on the doors of residents and store owners living near the statue of panman Winston “Spree” Simon. She recalled, she said, seeing that statue while being taken in a taxi to the court for adoption. “I remember the place clearly, so I thought I was from around there,” James said. “I am pleading to anyone who remembers me, my mother or father, to contact me. “I know I have a brother but don’t know his name.  I’m sure he remembers he has a sister,” James said. Anyone with informatiocan call telephone numbers 756-1453 or 781-3562.