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Another young woman jumps off Kaieteur Falls
By Romila Boodram
Horrified tourists yesterday watched as another woman plunged off the edge of the Kaieteur Falls just 82 days after Laleta Sivanand ended her life at the majestic falls.
Roshinee Pagwah at the falls shortly after she jumped.
The dead woman has been identified as 21-year-old Roshinee Pagwah of Reliance, East Canje, Berbice.
She was a clerk at the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL).
Reports are that the young woman who lived with her aunt, Indira, and mother, Indro Ramsundar at Berbice jumped off the 741 feet waterfalls some time around 09:00 hrs.
Kaieteur News was told that the woman was a passenger on a Roraima Airways flight that left the Ogle International Airport with nine persons– four Canadians, four Americans and the 21-year-old who was the only local tourist.
Information reaching this newspaper indicated that the woman seemed normal while at the falls and was seen taking a lot of photographs.
It was while the group was getting ready to leave the waterfalls that the woman turned back and ran towards the waterfalls and plunged.
Managing Director of Roraima Airways, Gerry Gouveia said that this time around the tour guide and people from the Kaieteur National Park were alerted and ran behind the woman in an attempt to stop her but failed to do so.
A police officer at the Kaieteur Falls
Gouveia opined that the young woman was determined to plunge off the falls.
The Ministry of Tourism, in a statement, said that based on information they have received, a tour group of nine and two guides- a Kaieteur Ranger and a staff member of Roraima Airways were about to be taken back to their aircraft, when Pagwah turned and ran towards the falls and jumped into the gorge.
The statement added that the tour guides were unsuccessful in intercepting the young woman’s dash.
“Reports indicate that revised tour protocols, including two guides per tour, regular head counts and the reporting of unusual behaviour, were in place and observed at the time of the incident,” the release added.
When this newspaper contacted Pagwah’s aunt, Indira yesterday, she could not believe that the young woman had plunged off the waterfalls.
In tears, she said that her niece left home around 05:00 hrs yesterday to follow a friend in Georgetown to clear a barrel. She had promised that she would return home a little after midday.
“She called a taxi and say she going town to follow this friend. I don’t know which friend,” she aunt said while lamenting, “No this cannot happen… This cannot happen.”
The woman said that Pagwah was her sister’s only daughter.
“If she (Pagwah) is dead then her mother will die too. She getting blackout all the time since she get the news that Roshinee jumped from the falls.”
According to the aunt, the 21-year-old seemed normal. No one knew of any issues that could have caused her to end her life in such a matter.
Asked whether the young lady was dating anyone at the time, her aunt could not say but stressed that she never took anyone home.
All tours have been suspended until ranks from the Guyana Police Force locate the body.
In 2009, 23-year-old Aliya Bulkan also jumped off the falls.
Kaieteur Falls in Sunday
Caption:
Pic in Sunday as jump
Caption: A police officer at the Kaieteur Falls
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