Elderly mom searches for her ‘big baby’

It has been more than three years since Clovis White laid eyes on her son, Barrington Byfield, who disappeared without a trace in June 2019.

"Him was here with mi the morning and him asked mi for a soda, and before I could get one from the container to give him, he left and I never see him again," a tearful White told THE STAR from her verendah on Ambrook Lane in Kingston.

White, 76, said that Byfield, 51, has a mental illness, but was on medication at the time when he went missing.

"Barry is a lovely pickney and I would love to see back my son. He may be a big man, but he is my little boy. I cry plenty of nights when I see that him really not at home with me," the mother said.

Byfield is of brown complexion, slim build, and is about 176 centimetres (5 feet 7 inches) tall. His mother said that it is unusual for her son to disappear for days, let alone years.

"Even when Barrington sick-sick, him always come back home when him leave the yard. What bothers mi is that when him leave here him was on medication, and him still don't come back home. People tell mi say dem see him a Stony Hill, and I walk down Stony Hill in search of him, but I don't see him. He was calm and use to do carpenter work and make furniture. Mi miss mi pickney," she said.

"One time, somebody tell mi say dem see him a Three Miles and him black and dirty and look bad, but other people seh dem see him a Stony Hill and him look good. I just want to find him so he can get the help he needs. Him is mi likkle company, and the one who usually come and ask if mi okay," White added.

The distraught woman said that Byfield's father, Alanzo, who died two years ago, was broken-hearted.

"His father, who he loves so much, died two years ago, and he doesn't know. His favourite auntie also died. I am very sick, I have a heart condition, along with other ailments. I just want to see my son, so I am asking anyone who may have seen him to contact the police," White said.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Barrington Byfield is being asked to contact the Half-Way Tree Police at (876) 926-8184 or 119.

- S.M.L.