The search for Riana Avisha Parag, the teenage girl who went missing after going Christmas shopping last month, has expanded to other Caribbean countries.
The family of the 18-year-old said they took this decision because they had run out of places to look in Trinidad and Tobago.
"We came up with nothing, therefore our other avenue is to begin our search elsewhere," Riana's mother, Mina Parag, said Wednesday.
The teenager, of Nelson Street, Longdenville, was last seen December 16, when she went shopping in Chaguanas.
Another teenager who went shopping in Chaguanas in December, Devika Lalman, 15, turned up dead days later. She had been raped and murdered. The killing is still unsolved.
Parag is one among more than 70 persons who are considered missing, according to Acting Police Commissioner James Philbert, who refuted reports that some 600 persons disappeared in 2008.
According to a sister of Parag, "last Sunday, our father went to Moruga, Cedros and all over south Trinidad to distribute flyers with her picture on them".
There have been no leads into her disappearance.
Said Mina Parag, "Every day it gets more and more frustrating, but we cannot afford to give up. Officers from the Anti Kidnapping Squad (AKS) visit us on a regular basis giving us any information they have gathered from their investigations".
Chaguanas detectives are also working on the case.
