The toll of Guyanese missing as a result of last Tuesday's terrorist attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center complex continue to mount.

Yesterday, Guyana's Consul General in New York, Brentnol Evans, confirmed as missing Shivonne Mentis who resides at Hollis, Queens and Astrid Sohan, who worked with Marsh and McLennan in one of the towers.

Evans is also to verify that another Guyanese is missing. That person is Rudy Bacchus, 48, a stockbroker, who was reported to be at a breakfast meeting at the Windows on the World restaurant on the 107th floor when the first plane slammed into the north tower.

Eighteen Guyanese are confirmed as missing, in addition to Navy Information Systems Technician, Kris Romeo Bishundat reported missing as a result of the attack on the Pentagon. They are Ronald and Kamini Singh who worked at Windows on the World, on the 107th floor on one of the twin towers; Shiv Shankar, of Richmond Hill; Anett Dataram, of South Ozone Park, New York; former Guyana middle order batsman Nizam Hafiz who also worked on the 107th floor; Patrick Adams, reported first as a former Guyana Defence Force officer but who the GDF said was a senior non-commissioned officer who retired in the late 1970s and John Charles who worked as security officers at the WTC; Sabita Guman and Sita Shewnarine who worked on the 97th floor in the southern tower; Joyce and Patricia Stanton, Vanava Thompson, Gregory John, Ameena Rasool and Ricknauth Jaggernauth who had been employed at NTX Interiors on the 104th floor of one of the towers and Hardai Prabhu who worked with Marsh and Maskan on the 98th floor of the towers. Stabroek News was informed yesterday by relatives of Shewnarine that she and Guman were seen on the 95th floor by a colleague who said that he went back to his desk to work but was then ordered to leave.

He said that two elevators came up to that floor and that he entered one of them but did not realise that Shewnarine and Guman were not with him. Other reports said that Guman and Shewnarine were seen on the ground floor but had not been heard from since.

Adams, according to report from the New York Consulate, left a message on the answering machine for his wife, telling her that he was trapped.