Kevon Felmine

As Venezue­lan news site Tane Tanae re­ports that miss­ing Debe hair­styl­ist Ria Sookdeo was sight­ed in Tu­cu­pi­ta. Her fa­ther, Frankie Ra­jku­mar, is plead­ing with in­ves­ti­ga­tors to go across there to search for his daugh­ter.

In a text mes­sage yes­ter­day, cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­ag­er of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice Ellen Lewis said they had no in­for­ma­tion on Sookdeo be­ing seen in Venezuela. How­ev­er, she said In­ter­pol would now be en­gaged to as­sist in the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Speak­ing at his home yes­ter­day, Ra­jku­mar said he was at the Mir­a­cle Min­istries In­ter­na­tion­al on Wednes­day night when the news came over the tele­vi­sion.

He said he on­ly heard rel­a­tives speak­ing of it and could not say whether it was con­crete ev­i­dence.

He said the po­lice were clue­less as to why Sookdeo was ab­duct­ed or where she was tak­en so they should check all leads.

Sookdeo, 34, of Raghoo Vil­lage, Debe, was bun­dled in­to a black Nis­san X-Trail SUV five weeks ago at the cor­ner of the Pa­pourie Road and the Pic­ton Es­tate Dri­ve, Pic­ton.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, she had just dropped off her chil­dren, Elana, nine, and Tor­res, five, at their Pic­ton Pres­by­ter­ian Pri­ma­ry School and was at­tempt­ing to turn her SUV when her ab­duc­tors blocked her path.

Two gun­men, dressed in tac­ti­cal cloth­ing, got out and forced her in­to their SUV and sped off.

Lat­er that day, rel­a­tives and South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force searched ar­eas in Ce­dros, Erin and Pa­lo Seco as there were ru­mours that she was be­ing smug­gled to Venezuela.

Tane Tanae, which re­ports on the Amacuro Delta, stat­ed that un­of­fi­cial in­for­ma­tion sug­gest­ed that Sookdeo was seen near a known ship­ping com­pa­ny that cov­ers the Delta Amacuro-Trinidad route.

"I be­lieve they should grab at this op­por­tu­ni­ty and send some­one across there to in­ves­ti­gate the mat­ter. If they don't have any­thing, no clue and we get some­thing like this, I be­lieve we should go and look, send some­thing across there.

'Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter, I plead to you again, if you can send some pro­fes­sion per­son there to look at the sit­u­a­tion. At the end of the day, I just want my daugh­ter back home with me," Ra­jku­mar said yes­ter­day.

Yes­ter­day, Sookdeo's hus­band, Mark, went to the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion to re­trieve their SUV which was held by po­lice since the ab­duc­tion. Mean­while, their chil­dren con­tin­ue to stay at home.