USAWATTIE Persaud, the woman killed in the Bel Air Park, Georgetown apartment of dead Cuban physiotherapist Guillermo Valintin Martinez Stable, was buried Wednesday at Stanleytown Cemetery in New Amsterdam, Berbice.
Scores of people gathered at Main and  St. Magdalene Streets, in New Amsterdam, to pay their last respects to the businesswoman before she was laid to rest, following a service during which bhajans were sung and tributes paid.
The decomposing remains of the 47-year-old woman and the body of the 58-year old Stable were discovered in the latter’s home, where he conducted his private practice, after a foul smell attracted attention to the premises.
A post mortem examination, performed on the body of Persaud by Government pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh, revealed that she died from multiple stab wounds to the face, throat and abdomen.
Eulogising Persaud, her overseas based daughter, Falena told the funeral gathering that her mother, also called Anita, was  born on July 27, 1963, at Blairmont, West Bank Berbice and attended Vryman’s Erven Secondary School, before marrying Bhigee Ramdat, of Mara, East Bank Berbice, for whom she bore three children.
Falena said, prior to her death, Persaud was the proprietrex of a grocery, cycle store and off licence liquor shop that occupied the lower flat of a three-storey  building.
Pandit Budd said the impact of the woman’s demise had the same impact as that of funeral parlour owner 69-year-old Ivor Persaud and his wife, Parbattie, 53, and their two grandchildren, Melissa, nine and Norman, 5, who all perished in a fire that razed their Charlotte Street, New Amsterdam home, on January 24, 2009