An overseas-based Guyanese residing in Puerto Rico was found dead in his room at the Pegasus Hotel in Georgetown yesterday.

Dead:Gorocknauth Ramdehol

Dead is Gorocknauth Ramdehol, 58.

A close friend, Seecharan (only name given) told reporters at the hotel that he last spoke to Ramdehol on the telephone on Sunday evening , and he seemed to be doing well.

The man said he received a telephone call yesterday morning saying that his friend had died and he rushed to the scene, but not before the body was taken away after a visit by investigators and Government Pathologist, Dr Nehaul Singh.

Seecharan added that Ramdehol, a Guyanese, had migrated to the United States as a boy, but later relocated to Puerto Rico, where he was residing with his family.

Ramdehol was a frequent visitor to his homeland and arrived in Guyana on October 2, 2009. He had heart problems and was admitted to Dr Balwant Singh Hospital for treatment recently.

At the scene yesterday morning, Dr Nehaul Singh told reporters that the man died of natural causes.