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The Kaieteur National Park (KNP) was re-opened yesterday after the body of Gyaneshwarie Laleta Sivanand who had gone missing, was retrieved and transported by plane to Georgetown.A post-mortem examination of the remains of the 40-year-old woman of Lot E3 La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara will be conducted today before cremation which is also set for today at the Good Hope Crematorium.One relative could not confirm whether Laleta Sivanand had any domestic issues but said that she had recently returned from England with a Master’s Degree, and was to have turned on to work at Singers the Wednesday after she went missing.The day after the woman went missing Kaieteur News met with her husband Rabindranauth Sivanand who did not have much to say except that, his wife left home the morning but did not say where she was going.All other information sought was greeted with the comment that it was his personal family business.The body, which was first spotted by a Kaieteur National Park Ranger late Saturday afternoon,Andre Burakovsky Jersey, was found in a rocky area at the base of the Falls. That area had previously been submerged by high water levels.Late in the afternoon of Tuesday September 1, Gyaneshwarie Laleta Sivanand, who had arrived at the KNP on an Air Services Limited flight, went missing after she left her group on the way back from touring.A search operation was immediately launched by the KNP Rangers. An expanded search was later led by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and the Guyana Police Force (GPF), focusing on the base of the Falls and the surrounding gorge and trails, but no trace of the woman was found at that time.Other persons from the touring group had reported that the woman was seen crying and talking to someone on her cellular phone, but that her mood improved after landing at the KNP airstrip.Reports are that she had informed some of the tourists that she was a doctor and was among a BBC group that discovered a cave behind the Kaieteur Falls. Both stories turned out to be untrue as checks by Kaieteur News revealed that she was a person who was into human resource as a former employee of Laparkan.When news broke of the discovery of the body, this publication again visited the woman’s Durban Backlands home where an elderly woman answered our calls and said that she had neither information nor comment to make regarding the news.The Ministry of the Presidency in a Press statement expressed condolences to the family and friends of the deceased tourist during this difficult time. |
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