Teen missing after attending health fair

Fourteen-year-old Omarie Watson disappeared without a trace on August 14, and his loved ones are worried sick. The teenager's sister Ikeba Clarke said she is pleading for his safe return.

"We don't know know where he is and we just want him to be back home safely where he belongs. Our grandmother is worried and her blood pressure is elevated since he is missing. She has not been able to sleep and we are all just worried and want him home," she said.

Omarie, a student of Waterford High School in Portmore, St Catherine, was last seen wearing a blue and white top, long sleeved plaid shirt paired with jeans pants, and black and grey slippers. Clarke said her brother was last seen at a health fair near their home in Independence City, in the municipality.

"Our grandmother had sent him to get a check-up and a medical about 8 30 a.m. She told him to wait until she come. He was there waiting but came back and told grandmom that the doctors said they could not attend to him unless she was present. At the time, she was in the shower and asked him to go back to get a number until she got there. But when she went there, he wasn't there. She asked the doctors and who else she could ask but they didn't see him. In the evening, we called his father but he said Omarie wasn't by his house either," Clarke said. A missing person's report was filed at the Caymanas Police Station the following day.

Clarke described her little brother as quiet and reserved adding that he is not the runaway type.

"The only place he would have gone would be his father and he is not there. He does not give trouble and is really well behaved. He likes football and no one that he plays football with has seen him. He doesn't have a phone as it was stolen and nothing belonging to him is missing from home," she said.

Anyone kno wing the whereabouts of Omarie Watson is being asked to contact the Caymanas Police Station at 876-988-1719 or police emergency number 119.