J’can woman missing since Hurricane Dorian ravaged parts of The Bahamas

Family members are searching for a Jamaican woman, Claudine Byfield, who has been missing since the island of Abaco in The Bahamas was ravaged by Category 5 Hurricane Dorian three weeks ago.

"It was said that all Jamaicans are accounted for but that is not so. There are few people who said they sighted her after the storm but we are given another impression that she did not make it through the storm," Patricia Byfield, her sister, told THE WEEKEND STAR.

Byfield said that the family has been trying desperately to find Claudine, 54, who lived in Oxford, St Mary, before migrating to The Bahamas some 15 years ago. Claudine was married to a Haitian who died three years ago.

"We are not getting any information from NEMA (National Emergency Management Agency in The Bahamas)," Byfield said.

She said that the family has been putting up posters and doing interviews with various media outlets in the hope that someone who has seen Byfield would contact them.

"If it is even a body, we want closure. Her five brothers and five sisters are desperately searching for her," she said.

Grand Bahama and the Abaco islands were the hardest hit areas of the Bahamas as the storm killed 52 persons. More than 1,000 are said to be missing.