Mariah, 18, remains missing

“We (relatives) did not get a chance today (yesterday) to visit her school to talk to teachers or students to find out if they heard or knew anything.

So far, her cell phone is still switched off and so all calls are going to voicemail. Ever so often I still dial the number hoping to get an answer,” Mariah’s aunt, Natalie Baptiste, told Newsday.

On January 16, shortly after 5 am, Mariah left her mother’s home at Khan Trace in Fyzabad to attend classes at El Dorado. The mother, Crystal Baptiste, had accompanied Mariah “out the road” and watched her board a San Fernando-bound PTSC bus.

On arrival at San Fernando, Mariah telephoned her mother saying she was going to board a taxi to go Mount Hope. On arrival at Mount Hope, Mariah again telephoned her mother saying she was going to board a final transport (a car) to go to school.

That was the last conversation the mother and daughter had and relatives later learnt that Mariah never showed up for school that day.