For three months, the family of Nicholas Greaves has searched for any clues to help them find the 26-year-old of Checker Hall, St Lucy.
Grandmother Luceen Norville said police have come up empty-handed, with the only trace of his last whereabouts being a backpack with his belongings, found at the beach near the bottom of nearby Sutherland Hill.
Norville, who took in Greaves when his mother moved to the United States in 2016, describes the harrowing feeling of uncertainty not knowing her grandson’s fate.
“It is hard, because God forbid, he’s dead, you don’t have a body or evidence to say that he is and we have no idea if he’s alive or where he could be. And then when you think about it, when you do not know the facts, you think about all sorts of scenarios that can happen, because anything that can happen could have happened and it’s hard not knowing where he is,” she lamented.
The last time she saw him was on November 1 when he made an early morning bus ride to Speightstown, returned home and helped out with some chores. Late in the evening they had supper, and Greaves, in usual fashion, offered to clean up and store the food.
Felt silence
“Everything was normal. I went to bed, he went in his room. When I woke up between 1:30 and 2 and I passed the bedroom, I felt a silence. When you’re accustomed to the house, you know how the house feels. Maybe because the fan was not on, I peeped around the door and I didn’t see his feet on the bed.
“So I went in the bedroom further and he wasn’t in his room so I thought he had gone out somewhere. Because I went to sleep I did not know when he left home, so I don’t know what he was wearing or anything,” she explained.
The missing man, who worked in construction, is the eldest of three children.
His twin brothers live in the US with his mother, whom he would often visit for months at a time. When he returned to Barbados he stayed with his grandmother.
Described as an introverted and polite person, Greaves was said to not spend much time outdoors, head to parties or be on the block.
Norville said he rarely left home at night and if he did, he would often return no later than 10 o’clock unless he encountered issues with transportation.
She said that initially she trusted that her grandson would return as expected, especially as his birthday fell on the same weekend of his disappearance.
“We thought he went out somewhere for the weekend so after he didn’t come back home, and he didn’t show up, I reported it to the police. We reached out to people that he may know, friends, family, but it feels like you butt a wall because there’s no new information and I have no idea where he is,” she added.
The family made several calls to his mobile phone but received no response, and after the first few days the calls then went straight to voicemail.
One neighbour, who recalled seeing the young man walking down Sutherland Hill after midnight, said he asked him where he was going but Greaves kept on walking with no reply.
Strange
“I found it strange that he didn’t respond because he would always greet him. He is a person that if you see him, he would always say hello. Everybody will say, well, he was very polite. He was quiet, reserved, he didn’t have a lot of friends but he was very polite, and was one of the most obedient children that I know,” the grandmother said.
Last weekend, Greaves’ mother took to social media to air her concerns about his disappearance.
She said he was last seen in the company of a slimlybuilt, middle-aged Caucasian woman from the Holetown, St James area, but Norville said they had no concrete proof of this. (JRN)
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