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Police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating 14-year-old Shakira Hinkson of #27 Meadowvale Heights, Prior Park, St. James.

The fourth-form student of the Parkinson Memorial School was last seen around 7:07 a.m. on Friday, February 27.

Shakira is approximately five feet two inches tall and of slim build, with a brown complexion. She has a small head, large eyes, thin lips, thick eyebrows, a pointed nose and chin, and muscular arms and legs. She is bow-legged and her ear lobes are pierced twice on both sides. She wears her hair in medium-length braids and has a visible scar on her right forearm. She speaks with a Barbadian accent.

At the time she was last seen, Shakira was wearing her school uniform, which consists of a green pleated skirt, yellow shirt, green and yellow belt, brown socks and brown shoes.

She is known to frequent areas including 1st Avenue Waithe Road, Greens, St. George; Fernihurst, Black Rock, St. Michael; and Oxnards Crescent, St. James.

Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Shakira Hinkson is asked to contact the Holetown Police Station at 419-1700, Police Emergency at 211, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIPS (8477), or the nearest police station.

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