Jamal Humes did not come home for Christmas, family says

Jamal Humes

A Belize City family remains hopeless tonight as the search continues to locate Jamal Humes. The twenty-eight-year-old mechanic was last seen alive on Wednesday morning when he went to his mother’s house in the Jane Usher Boulevard area. Friends, however, say that they last socialized with him on the night of December twentieth. Today his mother told News Five that her son would not have missed the Christmas holidays and his phone is off. With each passing day, the family fears the worst has happened to Humes. Word to News Five is that he had witnessed a murder several years ago on Faber’s Road, but we have not been able to confirm if his disappearance is linked. Sharlene Nicholas pleas for his safe return.

Sharlene Nicholas

Sharlene Nicholas, Mother of Missing Man

“Every morning, my son would come to my house and he would have breakfast, bathe, change and he would go about his daily routine. If he doesn’t have anything planned for that day and I am at home for that day, my son would spend majority of that day with me—either lying in the chair watching TV or he will come in and say “Ma, weh yow ah eat? Old gial, weh yo wah eat?” and he will make me breakfast. It is extremely strange because my son does not go anywhere or do anything without first informing me. If my son decided that he will go away for the Christmas, I would have known because he would have let me know. If it was a text—my son’s phone is dead—and my son, if he was out during the day and his phone died, he will borrow somebody phone and give me a call and say mom I am fine.  We have not received any information or any tips giving us the information that Jamal was threatened as far as we know. He didn’t bring it to me, he didn’t bring it to anyone of our family members; I asked his friends and nobody has stated whether Jamal’s life has been threatened in any way. So it is just a mystery and a loss.”