TWO other Guyanese, Gregory John and Shevonne Mentis, who worked in the twin towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) and were said to be in the buildings at the time of Tuesday’s gruesome tragedy, are missing. Their relatives fear the worst may have happened to them.

John reportedly lived at David Street, Kitty, prior to migrating, while Mentis, of 365 Marian Street, Brooklyn, New York, once lived at 167 Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

A brother of the missing woman told the Chronicle they received the sad news from his mother, Myrtle Bazil, who told them she feared that her daughter may have been trapped inside the building, as another daughter, Bonita, had spoken to Shevonne while she was at work on the 93rd Floor just about 15 minutes before the plane hit the building.

Since then, they have not seen nor had any further communication with the woman who migrated from Guyana in 1998, and would have celebrated her 26th birthday next month.

Meanwhile, the Grogan family who initially thought that their loved one `Francis’ was on the doomed United Airlines Flight 175, one of two aircraft hijackers crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, have reported that he is alive and well in Guyana.

Two relatives here had reported that they received news from others overseas that Francis, a seaman of 20 years, who commuted frequently around the United States because of his job, had perished on the flight.

They had seen the name Francis Grogan on the flight manifest which US authorities published, but initially bore no other information.

However, the Grogan, who was on the flight that was scheduled to fly from Boston to Los Angeles, was subsequently identified as a 76- year old priest of Holy Cross Church and of Easton, Massachusetts.

A sister here, called yesterday to say that she subsequently spoke with her brother by telephone and that he was alive and well.

An overseas contact, who spoke with Mildred Norma De Mendonca nee Grogran, a step-sister of Francis, yesterday, said the family, on seeing the name, thought that he was on the doomed flight, as he had indicated that he would have been in US at sometime.

A total of 266 people were reported to have been aboard the four hijacked planes. Two of the aircrafts were deliberately crashed into the twin towers, one slammed into the Pentagon in Washington DC, and a fourth crashed into a wooded area near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Meanwhile, Ameena Rasool, a mother of four children between the ages of eight years and eight months, has been listed among the Guyanese who are feared dead.

Rasool worked for Marsh and Maskan Insurance Company on the 98th Floor of one of the twin towers.

Relatives of two others, Annette Dataram, 24, also called `Priya' of South Zone Park, New York; and Nizam Hafiz, and former Under 19 cricketer, are still hoping to hear some good news about their loved ones.

The three have not been seen or heard from since the horrific incidents on Tuesday.

Sources confirmed that hundreds of Guyanese and other Caribbean nationals worked in the World Trade Center, with quite a number of them employed on the 107th Floor.

Despite this, news about the fate of Guyanese and other CARICOM nationals is sketchy, and this has been a source of concern for nearly all of the overseas-based Guyanese with whom this newspaper has spoken.

Meanwhile, the local Foreign Ministry headed by Mr. Rudy Insanally, is in contact with Ambassador to the OAS, Dr. Odeen Ishmael of the Guyana Mission in Washington and Mr. Brentol Evans, Consul General in New York, to aid in sourcing information about the missing Guyanese.