Candace reunited with mother, siblings

DAISY RAMESAR told Newsday yesterday that she was really happy to have all her children once again after the last of her three missing children up to three weeks ago, was placed in her care on Friday.  Ramesar said: “Everything is okay now, Candace slept well,” on her first night at her new home. After years of searching for her three children Crystal, 11, Candace, 9, and David, 7, Ramesar found joy three weeks ago when she was able to hug Crystal and David again. However the search was still on for Candace, who incidentally turned up at Newsday’s office last Monday with her father Johnny Logan. Logan who up until early Friday morning insisted on keeping Candace, was eventually persuaded to hand over the child to her mother the same morning.

Ramesar and Logan acrimoniously parted ways in 1999 hence the reason for the struggle for the children. The reunion came about following information received by ACP Winston Cooper, who immediately called WP Insp Roy of the Arouca Police Station and instructed her to go to Logan’s home and remove his daughter Candace, once she (Insp) was satisfied that the child was not in school. It did not take long before Insp Roy found Logan and spoke at length to him about the law he was breaking, after which the child was taken back to the station and her mother informed. It was the first time in years that Ramesar was seeing her second daughter.

During those years Candace, along with her other siblings Crystal and David were moved from place to place by their father and by doing so, the children were never formally schooled. ACP Cooper yesterday praised Insp Roy for her swift action which resulted in not only Candace reuniting with her mother, but also reuniting with her sister and brother after three weeks. Ramesar said she will be calling on the principal Primnath Gooptar of the Tunapuna Hindu School on Monday morning, to have Candace schooled there along with her siblings, who only started school for the first time one week ago.