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Jul 19, 2010 News
NUMBER SIXTY-SEVEN VILLAGE, CORENTYNE – Fire fighters are probing the cause of a blaze which has left five persons homeless at Number Sixty-seven Village on the Corentyne on Sunday.
An Official of the Guyana Fire Service said initial investigation points to a one-burner kerosene stove which was left unsupervised. Fire-fighters at the Corriverton Fire Station received the call about 01:55 hours on Sunday but by the time the team arrived on the scene, a large portion of the small structure was on fire.
The victims are 29-year old Gobin Balram known as Anand, his reputed wife Zelma and their three children – Vakas four-years old, Viddesh three and nine-month old Cynthia. Gobin Balram also has three other children from a previous union and they reside with their maternal grandmother.
Efforts to contact Gobin Balram were futile, however his mother 50-year old Gladys Sookdeo, who lives at another section of the same village, also said a stove which was left unattended could have been the cause. Mrs. Sookdeo was recently discharged from the hospital and was asleep when she was awakened by loud talking in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
“Nuff body ah talk and me get up. Three of he children live with me and they say, ‘Mummy, look a fire, plenty body ah run ah road fuh see the fire.’ But we didn’t know ah who house ah bun.”
It was after day clean that she realized it was her son’s home, “He own the house now about ten years. He buy it from he mother-in-law. Was a high wood house with one bedroom.”
According to the woman, her son’s reputed wife told her she was preparing dinner late Saturday afternoon. “Zelma say she left some pot on the stove cooking late yesterday afternoon and she drop to sleep and the fire catch on the stove. She and she three children went home and he went wedding house. Me nah know if them been sleeping or what but so she tell me.”
The woman said that she is unaware of any problems the couple may be having. “He say he go to work them come back and go wedding house. He work ah the back dam in people rice field. Them ain’t get fuh save nothing, everything bun up.”
Mrs. Sookdeo said she cannot be of much help to the couple and moreso, she is already taking care of three of his children. “They ain’t get nowhere to stay. Me son and he wife went to the Skeldon Police Station this morning (Sunday) and when them come back she bring the two children and left them with me. Me tell she me can’t keep them and she left them and she and she sister go way with the cycle. Them children leff ah run on the road.”
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