Af­ter six days, the joint po­lice/army search for miss­ing Princes Town moth­er Bis­soon­daye Gee­ta Seenath has been called off.How­ev­er, rel­a­tives, vol­un­teers and friends are con­tin­u­ing the search for the 46-year-old woman who went miss­ing on Sat­ur­day dur­ing a hike to Rio Seco Falls, Matu­ra.She was among 40 peo­ple on an ex­cur­sion to Saly­bia beach. She and 13 oth­ers were on the hike to the near­by falls when she went miss­ing.

Civ­il Mil­i­tary Af­fairs of­fi­cer of the De­fence Force Ma­jor Al Alexan­der con­firmed that the sol­diers in­volved in the search for Seenath had been re­called to bar­racks.He said: "We have ex­haust­ed search­ing all the ar­eas that she could have gone from the trail. Right now we are wait­ing on any new leads from the po­lice. The po­lice will con­tact us."Alexan­der said sol­diers and army per­son­nel searched the en­tire area where Seenath could have pos­si­bly wan­dered off."We have done that on more than one oc­ca­sion and we found noth­ing...We are cer­tain that she is not there," he said.

He said a thor­ough search was done along the trail lead­ing to the falls and all trails that Seenath could have passed, but no trace of her was found. So, Alexan­der said, the army would not be search­ing fur­ther un­less there was a new lead or new in­for­ma­tion."I would like to hope that she is still alive," he said."There is no in­di­ca­tion that any­thing un­to­ward hap­pened to her, like she was in­jured or some­thing like that."

Yes­ter­day, Coast Guard of­fi­cers joined in, comb­ing Saly­bia beach and the mouth of the riv­er for Seenath. Ter­ry Ron­don, coun­cil­lor for To­co/Fish­ing Pond, who was among the vol­un­teers search­ing for Seenath since she went miss­ing on Sat­ur­day, asked for mem­bers of the pub­lic with in­for­ma­tion on her where­abouts to come for­ward.He said: "I am not giv­ing up on find­ing her. We are not call­ing off the search for her."How­ev­er, he ad­mit­ted the feel­ing among vil­lagers was that Seenath is not in the area where they were search­ing."If she is hear­ing us, see­ing us, I would beg her to call and let us know," Ron­don said. "We are out there every day and it is not easy."The po­lice and the army out there, please, I am treat­ing this as if it is my fam­i­ly miss­ing."If she is not there, please call me, con­tact us. It is not easy out there. It have mapipire in that area."Con­tact­ed for com­ment yes­ter­day, Seenath's daugh­ter Rosh­nie, 19, said she was at the Matu­ra Po­lice Sta­tion and was un­able to speak.Sgt Christo­pher Fuentes is head­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.