Kamarang woman looking for dad she never met

Jun 26, 2022 News

The Detective

By Shervin Belgrave

Kaieteur News – Somewhere in Guyana there is a man in his early 70s who has no clue that a “fling” he reportedly had in the 1970s with a young woman in Kamarang, Region Seven had produced him a daughter.
The man Nicholas Allicock and the woman he had met as a young man, Ivy Peters, has died but their daughter, Amanda Peters, is 45 year old today and has spent most of her adult life looking for him.
Amanda currently resides in San Antonio, in neighbouring Venezuela but has travelled to Kamarang and other Regions of Guyana on numerous occasions looking for her father but was never able to locate him.
When a cousin related to her that she is acquainted with a reporter working with Kaieteur News, Amanda did not waste any time to make contact. She wanted to share her story and hopes that her dad or one of his relatives will read this article and they will finally be able to meet for the first time.
Amanda recalled that at the tender age of five she began to question her mother and aunts about her father because everyone else had a father except her.
According to Amanda, they gave her a photo of him and related that he is from Georgetown, Guyana and won’t be coming back.
“I held onto that photo, but during my travels it got misplaced,” Amanda told The Waterfalls paper.

A photo of Kamarang, a Region Seven Village.

Although she had lost his photograph, the image of what he looked like was never erased from her memory and she longed to meet him.
“He looked handsome in the photo,” she said.
As Amanda got older, she became more curious about her father and began seeking answers. Her mother and aunts could not keep his story a secret any longer so they decided to tell her the tale of how she came into existence.
Amanda learnt that her mom Ivy had met Allicock in the 1970s. There was a gold rush in Kamarang and miners from Georgetown flocked the area. Among them was Allicock.
“My aunts told me that he was handsome and my mom was ‘hot’ so it did not take long for the two to cross paths,” Amanda related.
Ivy reportedly fell madly in love with the charming Allicock and they soon started an intimate romantic relationship.

Amanda Peters, the Kamarang woman looking for the father she never met

Although the young couple was together in Kamarang many described their relationship as a “fling” because Allicock was a miner and not from the village.
Miners back then had a reputation for not taking their girlfriends along with them when it was time to return home or move to another location.
Allicock reportedly lived up to that reputation and when it was time for him to go, he said goodbye and left but he did not know that he had impregnated Ivy.
Ivy too did not know that she was pregnant with Amanda until the symptoms kicked in months later. Allicock was thousands of miles away and she had no clue where he was.
She tried contacting him but technology was limited back then and it proved difficult to locate him. Ivy soon gave up pursuing him and Amanda was born in 1977.
The young woman was broken-hearted and she wanted to put the past behind her so when Amanda was still a baby, Ivy relocated to Venezuela and started a new life there and never returned to Guyana.
Ivy had stopped looking for Allicock decades ago but Amanda wanted to meet her father even if it was for just a couple of hours.
Amanda said that when she was old enough to move around on her own, the quest to find her father started.
With clues from her aunts and those who were acquainted with him, Amanda followed his trail to Mahdia, Region Eight but it seems as though Allicock was always one step ahead of her.
The last information she received about his whereabouts was that he is still alive and healthy and living in a Region Eight community
However, Amanda is fearful that time is running out and she might never be able to meet her dad because the relative who gave her that information recently died and never got the opportunity to tell her the name of the Region Eight community.
If anyone is familiar with this story or knows of a Nicholas Allicock in his early 70s and wants to help Amanda, please call cell phone number 689-1219 to share your information.

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