“She was my only child”: Golden Grove mother pleads for answers after daughter disappears in Suriname

– daughter’s husband says she was shot

Tricia Sandy is living a nightmare no mother should have to endure. Her 34-year-old daughter, Coretta Blair Sandy, known to loved ones as Mindy, vanished earlier this month while on a trip to Suriname with her husband, and hasn’t been seen or heard from since June 11.
With her daughter’s husband – now in Guyana’s police custody – claiming she was shot but not revealing where the event occurred, the fate of Coretta is a mystery.
“It’s my daughter… only daughter, one child, my only child,” Tricia said in a trembling voice during a telephone interview with Guyana Times. “We normally talk every day, in and out. But that particular day, she didn’t come on for the day… she did not come on at all on the 11th.”
Coretta, a mother herself to a 15-year-old daughter, left her daughter with her mother then left Guyana on the night of May 29 with her husband, Terrence Glasgow, whom she was accompanying to Suriname. The trip was supposed to be brief.

“She told me she’ll be coming back in two days. She said she was going to take some things over there. She said he would be staying up, and she would be coming back in two days,” Tricia recalled.
Though Coretta didn’t go into detail about the nature of the trip, her mother said she mentioned she was helping to carry items for her husband.
“She told me she’s taking up some things for him… she didn’t tell me what. I thought it was a suitcase or something because it’s too much for him to go with, so she had to carry a bag. That’s what she told me.” “She has one daughter, she’s 15 years. The daughter is in my care.”
Tricia said the last time she spoke with Coretta was June 11.
When no call or message came the following day, her motherly instincts immediately told her something was wrong.
“I realised that something was wrong on the 11th. After I didn’t see her online, I said that maybe she doesn’t have internet because she told me that she only gets internet when her husband is around. So, I thought she was using hotspot…”
The woman told this publication that days later, Glasgow returned to Guyana alone. The story he told was shocking, but to her, it was also unbelievable.
“I went to prayer meeting, and I got a call from my niece who told me something was wrong with my daughter. So, I caught a car and I went home. When I got home, I saw her husband at home here. I asked what was wrong, and he told me he and his wife leave Cayenne, coming over into Suriname, and when they reach in Suriname, they leave to go and buy ration. He said when they reach to the place, two men came out and opened fire, hitting my daughter in the head. He said he had a gun and he fired back a shot, and another man come out and he had to run. He said he go to the border; he sold the gun, he got a pants and he came home. I don’t what happened to his pants”, the woman said.
“When he told us what happened, we [the family] started making a commotion in the house. Then the neighbour, who is police, heard and went and brought the police, and he was arrested. But I kept questioning him,” she recounted.
Glasgow is currently in police custody in Guyana, but Coretta’s body has not been found, and the details of where or how she allegedly died remain unclear. The family says the husband has not disclosed the exact location of the alleged incident.
“He’s not saying where the place is”, the missing woman’s mother said.
Tricia said that investigators at the Cove and John Police Station have since made efforts to reach out to law enforcement in Suriname, but so far, the mystery remains unsolved.
Now, with no answers at home, Coretta’s relatives are preparing to travel to Suriname in a desperate attempt to find her or at least find out what happened.
“We have persons and family members over there who are calling, and [who are] searching. So far, she is not at any hospital or morgue. We don’t know where she is. It is one thing that we know what happened to her, but not being able to locate her body is another thing. We are having sleepless nights,” the distraught mother lamented.
At the time of this publication, Coretta remains missing, and the silence surrounding her disappearance continues to haunt her family.
The Sandy family is urging anyone with information, no matter how small, to come forward.