Family desperate for answers as De Kinderen teen missing since Oct. 19

Seventeen-year-old Dani Ram Narine Mahadeo, also known as ‘Jonathan’, of De Kinderen, West Coast Demerara, has been missing for over one week, leaving his family distraught and pleading for help in finding him.

Mahadeo, a construction worker, was last seen on October 19, 2025, when he left home around 9:00 hrs to meet friends at the Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo ball field.  His aunt, Seema Narine, told the News Room on Tuesday that it was the last time anyone in the family heard from him.

“In the morning, he get dress and go out to meet some friends. Since then, we can’t get onto he. When he mother call he phone, it nah ring; the call just a forward,” Narine said.

The family reported Mahadeo missing to the Leonora Police Station, and both relatives and police ranks launched searches. However, all efforts have so far proven futile.

“A lot of friends the Police them get and take to the station, and everybody just saying no, them ain’t know no whereabouts, them ain’t see he,” Narine said. “One boy been send a message to he phone and he tell the boy on the phone he going ‘far end,’ but we don’t know where that is.”

Relatives say it is unusual for Mahadeo to leave home without informing his mother or staying in contact.

“He mother crying and she don’t know what to do because she said she son never off he phone. If he ain’t come home, he go call and say he go come later,” Narine added.

Mahadeo reportedly did not leave home with any belongings.

“Now we ain’t know wah fah think, say or do because every single way we know fah go search, we search. At one point, we saying wonder if anybody do he anything…all kind thing we thinking as a family. We just want think that we will find he back alive,” Narine said.

She added that Mahadeo’s parents are struggling to cope with his disappearance.

“Me brother can’t rest, he wife just deh throw down all the time, she got to go the hospital…we just ah study where this child can be. We just pray and hope that he come home back,” Narine told the News Room.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Mahadeo is asked to contact the family on 685-7911 or 632-6651, or the nearest police station.