St Ann cruise ship worker missing after turning out woman
Family and friends of 53-year-old Dennis Buckley are worried sick but holding onto hope that the cruise ship worker who disappeared seven weeks ago will be found alive. Buckley, who worked has worked for the last several years as a labourer on cruise ships, was last seen in his community of???, Runaway Bay, St Ann on June 9. He had a recent relationship but turned out the woman the weekend before he went missing. Mr Biuckley’s elder brother David travelled to the island recently and is leaving Tuesday after not being able to get much information about what has happened to his brother. David Buckley says his family members are worried and they have been unable to tell their mother, who is in her 90s, that Dennis has been missing. He says though his mother doesn’t know what has happened she is concerned as Dennis Buckley used to call her regularly. Mr Buckley says there has been no break in at the house, nothing was amiss and as far as he was concerned there appeared to be no foul play. It was he who informed the police, Wednesday July 16, that his brother was missing. Police did not issue the missing person report until more than a week later, Saturday, July 26. (See police report) That’s after Buckley went to the senior superintendent of police for the parish, Yvonne Martin-Daley to complain about delays in getting the information out, with a picture he had supplied.
NEAR TO COPS
He expressed concern to the North Coast Times that although Dennis Buckley’s house was less than 200 yards away, the police had not gone there to investigate. He said he had maintained the house as it was, even leaving his brother’s unfinished dinner, found covered on the table, as he had seen it. He said the back door to the house was found opened and nothing appeared missing. A small pouch Buckley carried was untouched; his phone was still in the house as was cash. David Buckley said he had made checks on the phone and realized that his brother repeatedly had called one number, that of a woman he was seeing. However, he said when he had checked the woman’s family in a nearby community her father told him she had migrated recently. He said he was going to hand over his information to police but had been discouraged because of their approach. Also, he said, he had information his brother had gone to an ATM machine, Tuesday, the day after he was last seen. He said he had gone to the Runaway Bay police station several times, asking them to formally seek the bank re cords and ATM footage but they had not done so. Meantime, investigations by the North Coast Times revealed that Dennis Buckley had left a woman friend in his three-bedroom home but when he returned to Jamaica in May, some six months after, he found several people said to be the woman’s friends and family in the house. Dennis Buckley reportedly ordered them to leave. The woman was seen leaving the house with her belongings in a van Sunday, June 8. Buckley was seen the following day but not since. Buckley is said to be a “secretive person” and that’s partly why his initial disappearance did not raise an alarm. However when his employers visited his home and asked about his whereabouts, a friend Lenworth Green contacted Buckley family overseas. “He is sort of quiet and don’t talk a lot,” said Mr Green who is a friend of several years. David Buckley said his brother had some mental issues and at one time did wander away. However, they now doubt he just wandered off and are asking help in finding Dennis Buckley.
