Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Roraima Airways has said the correct wedding date of Leezel Cambridge did not matter but his local company would like to offer the newly wedded couple a beautiful ‘Wedding Expo’ honeymoon package.
Cambridge was one of the passengers held up at John F. Kennedy International last week as a result of misfortunes experienced by Dynamic Airline when two of its planes experienced mechanical troubles of two different natures.
Cambridge arrived in Guyana Monday evening and eloped with her longtime lover and father of her young daughter, with whom she shared a relationship before she migrated to the USA. The event was a well-organized all-white affair and its reception hosted at a ‘palace’ in a Demerara community.
Captain Gouveia was told the media at a Dynamic Airways Press conference Thursday that Roraima, being the home of the annual ‘Wedding expo’ exhibition, is delighted to offer the ‘quiet’ couple a stay at Arrowpoint Nature Resort with all the complements that come with it.
He would also like to offer the American-based bride and her husband an experience of the mighty Kaieteur Falls, the world’s highest one-drop waterfall and one of the world’s most powerful water engines – Guyana’s cream of its tourism crop.
Captain Gouveia said even though Cambridge did not really miss her wedding, his company is delighted to offer a newly-wed couple a splendid vacation, even as she too was robbed two days of her homecoming wedding vacation.
“To me it didn’t matter whether her wedding was on the day which in was said or not, but we are the home of ‘wedding expo’, and this is a person that is getting married that was on our plane and it would give us great delight to get to meet with her,” Captain Gouveia told the press.
Himself and wife Debbie being married some 30 years, the award-winning businessman said he has recognized marriage as ‘sacred’ and a once-in-a-lifetime event in a couple’s life.
“I’d been married now for 30 years, and I love marriage and I would love to be able to send this couple off to have a honeymoon. They just happen to cross my path in my life and cross Roraima and it was brought to my attention and we will meet with her and make this possible,” Gouveia said.
A trip to Kaieteur is a lifetime opportunity – one that awaits many Guyanese at home and abroad and which many only dream of experiencing!
Flowing off the Potaro River watercourse in Kaieteur National Park in Region 8, Kaieteur plunges 741 feet or 226 metres over a sandstone and conglomerate cliff, into its gorge, and is the world’s largest single drop waterfall by the volume of water which it carries. Documentaries said Kaieteur flows a further 81 feet in a series of steep cascades, bringing its total flow to a height of 822 feet or 251 metres and making it the fall with the most impressive combination of height and water volume.
“Kaieteur Falls is about four times higher than Niagara Falls, on the border between Canada and the United States, and about twice the height of Victoria Falls, on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe in Africa,” Wikipedia said.
Kaieteur has been featured in various internationally produced documentaries and films including ‘The White Diamond by Werner Herzog’; ‘Animal Planet’s River Monsters with Jeremy Wade’; the science fiction animation television series G Gundam (in which the lead character trains and bathes under the falls before his final fight); the opening of the fourth season credits of the Discovery Channel’s series “Gold Rush” (2013), and in the body of a few of its episodes of that season; episode 6 of David Attenborough’s series ‘Life on Earth’ in which the native frogs, which thrive in the moist conditions, are discussed; and episode 1 of Steve Backshall’s series ‘Deadly Adventures’ where Steve abseils to the bottom and camps overnight.
Arrowpoint Nature Resort is a blissful habitation! A serene vacation home cushioned within the bank of Kamuni Creek, a tributary of Demerara River, the resort is an admirable product of Roraima and one which never lost its flavor. Built from timber and other forest materials, it truly signifies Guyana’s native beauty, and carries several cabins and a main hall in an intimate setting. Recreational excursions include mountain biking, trekking, bird watching, and visiting nearby Santa Mission, to see local crafts and foods produced there.
“I will send her mountain biking and so she and her husband can go mountain biking and go kayaking in the jungle and hopefully have some romance in the jungle,” Gouveia told the press.