Relatives of a Trinidadian woman who was living in St Maarten are now panicking and worried over their missing relative, who has now not been seen since Hurricane Irma ravaged the island last week.
The family’s last form of communication with Aliyah Gill was via a Whats App message, when she chatted with one of her aunts, Jaliy Lah Lum Wai, 63, of Port-of-Spain, just one week before the disastrous hurricane made its landfall.
Yesterday, Lum Wai told the T&T Guardian she is now very worried about the welfare of her niece and her two children.
“I do not know what area they live in in St Maarten but all I know is that they live very close to the coast line. I have had no contact with her and I am very worried,” Lum Wai said.
She added that all she knows about her niece is that she left Trinidad about two months ago for St Maarten, where she opened a restaurant selling Trinidadian food such as roti and doubles.
Gill’s sister, Kimberly, said they have made contact with T&T’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs but up to yesterday had had no feedback on whether or not Gill and her children - Dante and Mina - were located.
“We heard nothing at all, nothing. That is why we are so worried,” Kimberly said.
The relatives are hoping and praying Gill and her children are found alive and able to return to Trinidad as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, Trinidadians who were evacuated by Government from St Maarten began arriving home over the last 24 hours. Relief efforts also continue across the region for those countries now trying to pick up the pieces. (See Page A10)
