Old Harbour man’s wallet and valuables returned after losing it in Kingston taxi

Last Thursday morning Daveian Morrison, who operates a fledgling start-up business Awganic Inputs – producers of organic animal feed – left for Kingston to conduct a series of meetings.

However, when he returned to his Old Harbour home after a very long day on the hustle, Morrison realized that his wallet was nowhere to be found.

Frustration quickly turned into despair, while the thought of being inconvenienced and replacing all those debit and credit cards and driver’s license added to what was surely now a miserable day.

He retraces his step before telling himself he was either picked or it fell in one of the taxis that ply the Half-Way-Tree route.

“I was at a meeting, and me and one of the persons at that meeting were to go to another meeting. So I figure why both of us should drive to that meeting. So I parked my vehicle and said let me drive with him and then later on I could take public transport and pick up my car and head home,” Morrison told Old Harbour News.

Following his meetings, the last of which was at the Scientific Research Council (SRC), Morrison had to take two taxis from Old Hope Road to get to his personal vehicle in the Three Miles area.

“Driving home I normally place my wallet in a particular area of the car. Now when I reached Gutters I said let me get some food. When I reached for my wallet I realized it was not there. Then I reminded myself that the wallet was in my laptop bag. I dig up the laptop bag; not finding the wallet.

“Same time I made a few calls in the area but wasn’t too sure which taxi it would have fallen into. I made a Facebook post in the night.”

The Old Harbour resident harboured thoughts of going back to Kingston with the hope of finding the cab that he believes the wallet was in but decided against the idea, saying “better I go home and cancel all the cards more than go on a wild goose chase”.

Morrison was on his first call with one of the banks to advise them of his misfortune when he noticed an incoming call from an unfamiliar number. To his luck it was a man on the line informing him that he had his wallet. He felt an immediate relief.

The challenge, however, is that his wallet was in Nine Miles, Bull Bay in Eastern St Andrew, which is some 60km from Old Harbour.

The wallet was found in a taxi by the 21-year-old nephew of George Mundle, who is an electrician by trade. Mundle was able to contact Morrison from a business card in the wallet. Both men then made arrangements to meet up in Kingston the following day.

Asked if he thought that this could be a trap, Morrison said yes, before added: “I thought about it and said to myself nobody should be doing something like this, so I decided to go myself.”
They met in the Beverley Hills area where Mundle was working on a construction site.

Everything was intact, said Morrison, who posted a video on his Facebook page of him receiving his wallet from Mundle.

“I’m really looking forward to compensate George properly because he had saved me a lot of time that it would take to replace all those cards and IDs,” Morrison said. “But I always believe in the good of mankind and I always believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt and George prove to me that good people are still out there.”

When contacted by Old Harbour News, Mundle, 35, said the principles upon which he was raised by his grandfather would not let him do otherwise than return the wallet to Morrison
“When mi si di wallet the first thing that come to mi mind is that you have to return worse mi si him TRN, mi si him license, mi si him bank card dem in a it, so mi se dem ting yah important,” said the native of Copperwood district in Clarendon.

He said it is natural habit of his to demonstrate acts of goodwill to people, even strangers, which sadly comes as a surprise to many in this day and age.