Keisha Sandy still missing

Today is 64 days since 21-year-old Keisha Sandy, of Black Rock, Tobago, literally disappeared and has been reported missing.
Her family is convinced that she was kidnapped.

An employee of Tateco Credit Union, Keisha, as is customary, transacted business on behalf of Tateco at Scotia Bank in which she deposited a sum of money and withdrew $14,000, around 10 am on January 27. She never returned to the office. Between Scotia Bank on Carrington Street, downtown Scarborough, and the Tateco Building on Wilson Road — just about 400 metres away if you walk south on Wilson Road, through the Scarborough (NIB) Mall and virtually into the bank — no one so far can say what happened. Keisha disappeared. “As a family we don’t believe that she would have done something like this or gone of her own free will; so if someone is being taken against their will, they have been abducted, they have been kidnapped,” Keisha’s aunt June James, speaking on behalf of the family, told Newsday. “Whether or not, you know, force has been used; you know, if in any way her life has been threatened, we believe that it is not something within her character that she would have gone willingly.”

James, who resides in Florida but is back home to “keep the issue alive” acknowledged the family was well aware of the various rumours circulating within the island community, mainly that Keisha had absconded with the money. And here, she stressed, she was appealing to Tobagonians to disabuse themselves of this quite popular preconceived notion and really assist in the search for Keisha. “Well, if we are incorrect, then we can deal with that then, but we are confident that she would not just do something like that,” she asserted. James feels prompt attention was not given to the matter in the early stages immediately following Keisha’s disappearance. She told Newsday there has been a report that Keisha was seen in a car with three men, one of whom was driving while she was seated in the back seat with the others, on the day after her disappearance. This was reportedly around 9 am on January 28, and the car is said to have broken the traffic light at the Rockly Vale junction.

However nothing has come out of the police investigation to date. Police would only say they are following certain leads, with inquiries being carried out by Detective PC William Nurse, of the Homicide Bureau, in Tobago. Keisha’s family is interacting with the police continuously, James explained. “Yes,” she says, “the family has considered the possibility that she could be dead.” But James stressed they have kept hope alive, even though they have heard absolutely nothing from Keisha since January 27. She acknowledged that the whole matter is so baffling. It’s like Keisha vanished into thin air! James appealed to members of the public, anyone, with any little bit of information, no matter how insignificant it might appear or would have appeared then, to come forward. She told Newsday the objective is to locate, to find Keisha, “whatever the circumstances of her disappearance:. You can contact 685-7105 or 686-5485.