ZION HILL, Portland — Veveta Baugh-Robinson last saw her husband Barrington on September 29 before he went fishing with a neighbour. With each passing day she worries even more.

“From Thursday morning till now… nothing, nothing,” she bemoaned during an interview with the Jamaica Observer on Tuesday after a search by her son and four divers turned up no clues.

Based on the missing person report she filed, her 69-year-old husband of 22 years went fishing in the Dragon Bay area of Portland.

Baugh-Robinson told the Observer he left home about 6:30 am. She was surprised when he wasn’t back by 1:00 pm. As the hours ticked by, she became more agitated. Shortly before 6:00 pm she began asking neighbours if they had seen him.

“I called the lady down the shop and ask her if she saw Barrington and she said, ‘No, but the guy come from about one o’clock with fish and asking her if she see Barry.’ She said she asked him, ‘How you two go a sea an you come in now a ask mi if mi see him?’ Him seh maybe him soon come.”

After word began to spread in the community that her husband had not returned, Baugh-Robinson went to the San San police station and reported him missing.

She also sought answers from the man with whom her husband had gone to sea.

“He said somebody tell him that Mass Barry gone up. I said to him, ‘How the two of you go to sea and you don’t know where he is?’ When I get home I didn’t see [my husband’s] red bag and I start crying and I am still crying up to now as I don’t know what happen,” a distraught Baugh-Robinson said.

She said the police found the red bag and her husband’s slippers on the beach a day after he went missing. According to a police source, a team from the Portland Marine Division conducted a search, but it was called off after the sea became choppy.

“To date, Mr Robinson has not been located and no useful information was ascertained as to his whereabouts. Investigations are ongoing and we can only report him as missing,” said the source.

Baugh-Robinson has assumed the worse. She said her son and other divers searched the waters and three caves but have seen no sign of her husband.

“There is another one that they say they did not go into as it looks too detrimental to go in, and they don’t know if it is there the body of my husband is in. They don’t see [fish] gun, rope, fin, nothing at all,” she related.

“If something nuh eat him or him nuh get caught by something him gone, him gone for real… I will miss him. I will never see him again… If we can only get the body, if anything one of his hand, one of his foot that we can say yes, we have something,” she said as tears flowed freely.

She had planned to bake a cake last Saturday, a belated gift for her husband who had a birthday a week earlier. That plan was put on hold as she waits for closure.

Her husband’s friend Stephen Neufville also spoke of being in a state of limbo.

“Barry was a hard-working person, a mason, a jovial person. We know each other for years and he loved to do some fishing, that was what he loved. We are saddened that he is missing, he was a great man. Him birthday just pass and we were to celebrate, but the rain come and we were planning for this week. The goat meat sill in the freezer. I miss him; everything just mash up suh,” he said