For nearly a month, the relatives of a missing Abaco native have turned to the local community and social media for answers, after the 60-something truck driver vanished without a trace following a routine workday. Jean Honoret, an experienced truck driver in his early 60s, was last spotted on June 9, when he checked in for his scheduled shift but never made it back to his residence, according to close family members.
Wilfred Toussaint, Honoret’s cousin who has shared an unusually close bond with him for years, described their daily routine of checking in with one another, multiple times a day in most cases. The pair spoke the day before Honoret disappeared, and Toussaint said nothing seemed off or alarming during their casual conversation, which unfolded just like any other. “We live like brothers,” Toussaint shared in an interview. “Every morning we check in, ask how the other is doing, what’s going on. We even crack a few jokes. By 5:30 every day, one of us always calls the other to make sure everything is okay.”
It was that broken routine that first raised Toussaint’s alarm: when he did not hear from Honoret at their usual time the next day, he knew something was wrong. Toussaint, who currently resides in New Providence, told reporters he has no clear idea what could have happened to his cousin. “I don’t know if he’s still alive, or if someone hurt him. I really don’t have any answers,” he said, but added that the entire family is still clinging to hope that Honoret will be found safe.
As the search drags on without official updates, local residents have taken to sharing posts across social media platforms, asking anyone with even small scraps of information about Honoret’s whereabouts to come forward. Toussaint also shared one key detail that has added to the family’s uncertainty: he later learned that a woman who claims Honoret owes her money showed up at his home looking for him shortly after he went missing.
Toussaint confirmed he is making plans to travel to Abaco in the coming days to join the search for answers personally. When contacted by The Tribune, Chief Superintendent Michael Thurston, the top-ranking police official overseeing Abaco, confirmed that as of the outlet’s latest inquiry, Honoret’s family had not yet filed an official missing person report with local law enforcement.