Shindlar Cuffy

Shindlar Cuffy was last seen on November 26, 2018 when she entered a vehicle on the Southern Main Road in Claxton Bay to go to school.

T&T Guardian (2018) – Every day for the past year the father of missing teenager Shindlar Cuffy has been experiencing extreme mental torture.

“I feel like someone is using a sledgehammer to pound each of my fingers every day,” lamented Joshua Maynard.

Compounded with this is his dissatisfaction with the police investigation into his daughter’s mysterious disappearance.

Cuffy now 17 years old lived with her mother and sister in Claxton Bay and attended Marabella North Secondary School.

She was last seen by her mother Shondel Shallow on November 26, 2018 when she (Cuffy) entered a vehicle on the Southern Main Road in Claxton Bay to go to school.

She did not attend classes and never returned home.

It was reported that on Christmas Eve her mother found a letter from her daughter in her bedroom stating that the Lord had sent her on a mission and she has to obey.

Her disappearance became even more mysterious when a voice note suspected to be from the people involved in her disappearance began circulating on social media. A person sounding like Cuffy said she had given her life to Jesus.

On the recording, a woman who had a foreign accent claimed to be a Christian pastor and leader of Still Small Voice.

She denied that the group was a cult. The recordings were sent to the police.

“Since then I have heard nothing at all. Is like she just vanish in thin air. I want need to know what is happening with my daughter. I need some closure,” said Maynard. He felt that the police have given up their search for her.

“The police not taking this seriously. It is like they don’t have any interest in this any more. There are a lot of missing people out there.” He said around September or October he went to the Office of the Prime Minister and spoke an employee. He was assured that an email would be sent to the Police Commissioner Gary Griffith seeking his intervention in his daughter’s disappearance.

“I have gotten no response since then,” he lamented. He had a message to his daughter.

“Please come back home. I want you to know that your father misses you and loves you. Please come back home and we will take it from there.” As for the recordings, he believes that his daughter was forced to say those things.

He also rejected a rumour that his daughter was pregnant for an older man. “I believe those things were more or less staged by those who are involved in her disappearance to throw off the public and the investigators so they could lure her away.”

He also appealed to the Commissioner to intervene and find his daughter.