Senior Reporter
sascha.wilson@guardian.co.tt
Seven months after 56-year-old Marlon Henwood disappeared without a trace, his brother has renewed his appeal for help in finding him.
“Something happened to my brother, and I am not going to give up,” insisted Henwood’s brother, Anthony, who has increased the reward for information on Marlon’s whereabouts from $10,000 to $40,000.
Marlon has been missing since March 3, after leaving the San Fernando General Hospital.
“It makes no sense at all,” lamented Henwood during a telephone interview.
Marlon holds dual Canadian and Trinidadian citizenship. He lived in Canada for 19 years before returning in 2024 to stay with his mother in Siparia.
According to Henwood, his brother suffers from a developmental disability and a speech impediment, and it is unlikely he could have survived “on the streets” for the past seven months on his own.
He said the family has received no feedback from police.
“The police call us asking if we have any updates. They are useless,” he lamented.
Henwood, who also lives in Canada, travelled to Trinidad after his brother went missing and later returned in July with his mother.
“How can a person just disappear into thin air?” he complained.
In a previous interview, Marlon’s mother said he left home to go for a walk but was apparently beaten. Someone reportedly took him to the Siparia Health Centre after seeing him bleeding on the road. He was then transferred to the San Fernando General Hospital. The following day, when she returned to visit him, he was missing, and no one could account for his whereabouts.
Despite searches by the Hunters Search and Rescue Team and assistance from Interpol and the Canadian Embassy, the family has had no closure in their search for Marlon.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to contact the nearest police station or call 999, 800-TIPS, or 555.
