Search continues for missing Georgetown woman, seven months after disappearance

It has been seven months of anguish since 63-year-old Gale Husbands, a wife and mother, vanished from her D’Urban Street, Georgetown home. She was last seen wearing a floral dress on February 7, 2024.

After she disappeared without a trace, her family has been searching for her relentlessly. Her disappearance has taken a toll on the family, especially on her 83-year-old mother, Joan Nascimento.

Speaking with the News Room on Tuesday, Nascimento expressed the family’s determination to continue the search until Gale is found.

Nascimento recalled that the last time she saw her daughter was the day before she went missing.

“The last time I saw her was the 6^th of February, she had to go to Woodlands Hospital for results of a blood work she had done but she went missing the very next day which was the 7^th,” Nascimento said.

Gale lived with her husband. Nascimento said they got married in 1996; Gale has four children from her previous marriage. All of her children reside abroad.

On February 7, Gale’s husband who works as a hire car driver called Nascimento and told her that the woman was missing.

Nascimento explained that Gale’s husband said he was coming home from work and called Gale to inform her.

“He said he was calling her phone but he wasn’t getting any answer and he asked his sister downstairs to go and check on her and the sister said, no she is not there.

“The said night, we went all over by the [Stabroek] Market square and we didn’t see her,” Nascimento recounted.

Gale suffers from diabetes and hypertension and according to her mother, about four years ago she was diagnosed with a nerve condition.

The family remains baffled as to what caused Gale to walk out of her house and never returned. She did not take any of her medication, clothing, or phone.

“It is strange because if a person walked out of a house, how can they suddenly vanish and nobody not seeing them,” Nascimento questioned.

Nascimento said she even questioned Gale’s husband if they had any marital issues to which he said no.

She said she also questioned her husband if they had any problems and he said no

“I am very upset, I am crying all the time, I get like a skeleton. I was never like this, I lost a whole lot of weight, I can’t get to sleep and eat proper,” a tearful Nascimento said.

Twenty-four hours after she disappeared, a report was made at the Alberttown Police Station.

Nascimento said while they have searched far and wide for Gale with no leads, they will continue until she is found.

“You know how many places we been and search for her – the whole of Georgetown, we been over the river, Parika, Parfaite Harmonie, Belle West, Linden, Berbice, we went Onverwagt where they have that place, Hugo Chavez.

“We don’t know where else to look, we look in the Gardens, the Seawalls, the East Bank but we are not finding her anywhere,” Nascimento said.

The elderly woman said she also questions if something terrible has happened to Gale.

“I wonder if somebody killed this girl and put her in a shallow grave, I don’t know but this is what is tormenting me.”

CCTV footage from a church nearby captured when Gale walked up D’Urban Street on February 7. A store CCTV also captured when she walked by. And that was the last time Gale was ever seen.

“All I want is my daughter to come home, if somebody good got her out there, let them come forward we will give them a reward money,” Nascimento pleaded.

If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of Gale Husbands or have seen her, please contact +592 617-1596 or +592 669-2832.