43-y-o woman hasn’t seen mom since birth

Patricia Elaine Clarke has reached the brink of despair, as the 43-year-old makes the last effort to locate her mother whom she has not seen since she was a newborn.

"I think about meeting her every day. I want to know the person weh give me life, weh bring me out on this Earth," Clarke said. She told THE STAR that she was born in October 1980 but at three months old, her now deceased father Lloyd Grant took her and her older brother Anthony Clarke to live in McKenzie, St Ann, with his mother, Maud Roache.

"My father was of unsound mind and he took me from Granville, Montego Bay [St James], where I was born to St Ann because him say my mother used to leave me with my little brother alone at the house," she said. Since that relocation, Clarke was left in the care of Roache. She never saw her father again, as Roache told her he had passed. Anthony, who was not her father's son, also went to live with other relatives. Clarke said that her mother, Alvira McKenzie, who was 20 at the time of her birth, never visited her.

"My grandmother treated me like royalty because I am the last one, but she passed in 2005. I never really heard much about my mother, just weh my grandmother tell me because she never really liked talking about it. I have been trying for years to find my mother," Clarke said, adding that she has called a popular radio show and television show, both of which yielded no results. She also made attempts through the Registrar General's Department but had to forfeit the process due to insufficient funds. The community health aid is now seeking answers through this newspaper as her last resort for answers.

"Me nuh have no father, no brother, no sister. Me feel like the odd one out, me feel left out like at all times. You just feel like yuh nuh have no family. It's just you alone and when my grandmother dead, me nuh have nobody else fi talk to because we had a very close relationship," she told the news team.

Clarke said her heart felt heavy knowing her parents missed out on several academic milestones as well as meeting their grandchildren.

"They [her children] ask me about her all the time. Of course me would want them to meet her. It probably would be emotional, if she was alive. I would want her to answer some questions. Me just want to know 'Why? What happened? And yuh nuh try fi search for me all these years?' I forgive her though but I just want to know the real story," Clarke shared.

She also wishes to rekindle the relationship with her brother Anthony.

"Most times me just siddung and lock up myself and cry because is there another way? Me siddung and look and say everybody can have their family and me caah have none. Me waah go out with my family, me want my children to say them a go spend time with grandma or aunty or uncle," she said.

Anyone who thinks they have information on Alvira McKenzie, may contact Patricia Clarke at 876-820-2115.