Last night, you heard from Isani Staine, the father of the 5 year old student who was left to wander in the Pound Yard area on Friday after he didn't get out at his Button Bay Nazarene Primary School.
Staine wants answers from the Ministry of Education - which provides the bus service - and he wanted to find the good samaritan who picked up little Kwesi and dropped him at the school on bicycle. Well, after our story aired last night, he connected with that good samaritan - which led us to him today. Here's his account of what happened:
Isani Staine, Concerned Father
"Up to this day, I still do not know who is that person, and I would like for you, sir or ma'am, to please come forward so that I could understand why this situation happened and why he was left at the Pound Yard."
And last night he found out that the Good Samaritan who saved his son is this man, Wilbert Zelaya. He's hired by parents to walk children to school everyday when the school bus ends its run at Pound Yard. But on Friday, he saw a new face, this one, 5 year old Kwesi Staine - and he seemed lost:
Wilbert Zelaya, Good Samaritan
"So I di ask the lee bway - weh you gwen - he seh he gwen da school, but he di point to the gas station side, so I she whe yu parents deh? I seh weh bredda deh, weh you sister deh, he seh I no have none."
"I say but weh you gwen? he seh ih Gwen da big school. I seh hold on, mek I check inna yuh bag. So I check in his bag and I see a lee writing seh Buttonwood Bay. I seh alright we gwen deh."
"Because I mean the thought of him and da young boy from Stella Maris came into mind. I told him that I will take him, I will see what I could do for you."
And he did, he put Kwesi on his bicycle and rode him two miles across town to Buttonwood Bay Nazarene on Coney Drive - which is where he took this picture kind of a proof of life
Wilbert Zelaya, Good Samaritan
"When I reach there mussy about 8:40 soh, I meet the warden and I tell her dis lee bwoy say he belongs here, I meet this lee bwoy way at Pound Yard by himself and she was shocked, she was glad and I tell her just mek sure dis lee bwoy reach back home."
Jules Vasquez
"You took a picture of him?"
Wilbert Zelaya, Good Samaritan
"Yes, when he reach the school."
Jules Vasquez
"Why?"
Wilbert Zelaya, Good Samaritan
"I just want to make sure the lee bwoy reach safe, delivered safe and if anything showed up - dat I had delivered this lee bwoy at the school safe."
Jules Vasquez
"He's so fortunate that you encountered him and not somebody who may want to chance him."
Wilbert Zelaya, Good Samaritan
"Yes, yes and dat gone through my mind. That's way I tell him you are not going anywhere from me. I wah tek care of you and I will take you."
And while Zelaya was the right man at the right time- he agrees that leaving small children on the bus to determine their own stops is a problem:
Wilbert Zelaya, Good Samaritan
"Being on that bus, and seeing kids like that in pre-school, so how will you allow our kids in pee-school to be on that bus?"
And now that he has received the gratitude of Kwesis;s father - he says he;sthe one who's grateful:
Wilbert Zelaya, Good Samaritan
"He called me and I tell him I am so grateful to be there my brother. Like what he said it could have been a different story. I am just grateful I was there and I thank the good Lord above to set him in my hands."
Isani Staine says he has another meeting scheduled with the school - and he's trying to get some kind of answer from the Ministry of Education.
