Still no sign of missing woman

(CNS): Despite yet another intensive search by police and community volunteers on Saturday there is still no sign of Kerran (Kerry-Ann) Baker who has now been missing for more than one week. A police spokesperson said that more than 100 people joined officers and special constables to comb the islands’ eastern districts from Savannah out to East End, both land side and seaside looking for the missing woman or clues to her whereabouts. However, officials said nothing of significance was uncovered. Police say that are following up each and every possible lead which has seen both the air support unit and marine vessels carry out searches of the seaside in West Bay, canals and sea around Prospect and Newlands.

Chief Superintendent John Jones, who also turned out for the search on Saturday said it was very touching to see so many people come out to show their support for Kerran and her family through their commitment tosearch. “A community that unites together stays together that is what we experienced today,” the senior officer said. “However, we still did not find Kerran and as such we are renewing our plea to (anyone that) knows where she is or has any information as to her whereabouts to please report it to the police or someone you trust. Let’s continue to unite and find this young woman who has been missing for seven days now,” he added.

Kerran was last seen on CCTV footage at Foster’s Airport supermarket at around 7pm on Saturday 31 July. Friends and family say they last heard from her by phone a short time before then. On Sunday a concerned friend who not heard from Kerran since Saturday evening which was out of character for the twenty five year old, went to her home in Bodden Town. She persuaded the landlord to open the apartment in Arrow Drive Where Kerran lives alone where they phone her handbag and partially unpacked groceries from Fosters. They then raised the alarm with the police.

Kerran’s white Honda Civic was then found near to Pedro St James around lunch time on Monday 1 August and her car keys the following evening some fifty feet away by some smears of what police said could be blood but this has not yet been confirmed.

Since then, aside from a possible sighting of her car in Midway Close in the Lower Valley area around 9pm which has not yet yielded any further clues there has been no further information on what could have happened to Kerran after she got home from Fosters supermarket.

Several of Kerran’s family members including her parents, aunt and sister are now in Cayman from Jamaica helping with the searches. Kerran’s father Wilmot Anthony worked in the Cayman Islands for more than a decade and has pleaded for people to contact him if they are afraid to go to the police if they know anything at all.

Meanwhile, investigators continue to ask people who knew Kerran to come forward with any information about her that may offer a possible clue to what has happen to her.

The public is asked to call the police on 949 7777 or Wilmot Anthony on 321 4271 or alternatively the anonymous tips line 800 TIPS (8477) if they can offer any information that could assist the investigation.