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Despite not seeing his daughter Jasmine 'Maya' Deen for three months, Lloyd Deen remains convinced that the 22-year-old is still alive.

Jasmine, a visually impaired student of The University of the West Indies, Mona, has been missing since Thursday, February 27.

Her father has been anticipating her return since, and nothing has changed.

"Me nuh believe she dead. A nuh seh me won't accept it if it happen, but me nuh believe that because me nuh feel nothing like that. Me nuh dream har ... me nuh feel that," Lloyd told THE WEEKEND STAR.

Lloyd has three other children - two daughters, ages 18 and 23, and his eldest child, a 25-year-old male. He says they are his main support system and they all have the same resolve.

"Dem nuh give up, 'cause dem still a have the same hope weh me have seh somehow dem a go see har back," he said.

"A dem feel it. Dem feel it more than me ... me nah tell no lie. Dem a the main source of my help. Me depend pon dem fi help me wid har, so it come like is a part a dem gone same way. A watch me a fi a watch dem. The big girl get a work so she affi gone pon the work, but me a tell yuh ... she just a keep the tears inside."

She love school

He recounts the last time he saw Jasmine before she went missing. "She love school ... not even lunch money she nuh ask fah. The last time me see har, she lay dung and me seh, 'Nobada go school today,' and she seh she affi go because she have exams," he said, as tears filled his eyes.

"A my baby that, enuh ... All when she a 100 a still my baby 'cause she caah live without me. Me struggle wid har. Me struggle too much. Me wah my daughter."

The matriarch of the family died in 2008, so Lloyd says that as the only remaining parent, he has to display considerable strength, even though his daughter's disappearance has left him debilitated.

"Me now, me caa mek dem see my tears. Me affi strong. Somebody affi deh deh. Me weak inside, enuh, but definitely, me affi build some strength. We still affi live, but a the hardest thing. The worse thing is that me caa even work. Me caa get up and go work because me nuh comfortable," he said.

Lloyd revealed to THE WEEKEND STAR that two months after Jasmine's disappearance, an anonymous text to one of his daughters gave new strength to their hope.

"We don't know the person, and the girl was telling my daughter seh Jasmine deh somewhere inna Kingston, and is a certain type a people have har ... bad people, and nobody caah talk," he recalled.

"Then about two weeks ago, me and har go town, and is a next lady weh know me a tell me the same argument. Me report it to the police and dem checking it out."

The police are yet to make any significant breakthrough in the matter.