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GIFTLAND CHARITY MAKES DONATION TO BRICKDAM POLICE

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GPL DONATES TO Pg3 INSTITUTE CANCER

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TRIBUTE TO COLIN SMITH – A MAN OF HONOR BY VIBERT PARVATAN

Friday Oct. 22, 2021

BOSAI WORKERS DOWN TOOLS GPL DONATES TO CANCER INSTITUTE

On Saturday, October 2, the Brickdam Police Station was destroyed by fire which displaced many of the policemen women. No one was injured.

Since the fire, the Central Police Station has been temporarily relocated to Saint Stanislaus College.

The Giftland Charity Foundation, with aid from the Giftland Group of Companies, has moved to assist the police force in this time of extreme hardship.

“We were able to provide many items that were requested; a printer, water

dispensers, and various office supplies such as pens, markers, desk organizers, and more,” the foundation stated.

“We are hoping that this donation can serve the staff of the Police Force well while Guyana Power and the ranks focus on Light(GPL) is throwing rebuilding and keeping its support in the fight the nation safe.” against cancer by donating $250,000 to the Guyana Cancer Institute(GCI).

October is Cancer Awareness Month. that they were losing hope GCI a Non-Profit in their future in Guyana Organization has been in and that they were merely operation since 2006 and marking time until they is a project between the can go to a foreign land. Ministry of Health and Unfortunately, it incurred Global Imaging Services the wrath of some senior Inc. functionaries who in a The Institution mostly widely circulated release runs on donations from attacked me personally. the public to give their I did not respond but patients treatment at a Colin Smith who was subsidized cost. the Editor of the Catholic GPL on Pink Friday, Standard in a short observed today, Friday, rebuttal stated that my donated the money to the article was factual and that institution. all my writings were my Speaking at the handing personal views as a citizen over ceremony at the GPL of Guyana.

Office, Public Relations Colin Smith will be Officer, Nathalie Pindar, remembered in a special said that this shows GPL’s way as a gentleman, commitment to help in the not tarnished in an fight against cancer. environment where “This donation is our arrogance and corrosive utterances undermine harmonious relationships; and where intolerance constrains the expression of views with fear of consequences.

My colleagues especially the Secretaries join with me in this expression of sympathy to his beloved family, to the Catholic community, and all those who cared Region Four with one for him.

We pray for the of the highest vaccination rates has the most deaths repose of his soul.

TRIBUTE TO COLIN SMITH – A MAN OF HONOR BY VIBERT PARVATAN

I am saddened to learn of the passing of Colin Smith with whom I have been acquainted over three decades and for whom I have always had great respect and admiration. I admired his calm disposition, his ongoing display of willingness to assist, and his humility.

In 1993 at the invitation of Father Andrew Morrison, I started writing a weekly column in the Catholic Standard captioned “Viewpoint” which mainly focused on human values.

That was a period when as the Executive Director of the Laparkan Group of Companies I was very busy. Combined with my Social, Cultural, and Humanitarian activities, I was under pressure in relation to managing time.

In that scenario, there were occasions when Colin will call the office to alert me that the cutoff point for receiving

articles was approaching and that going to press was at hand. Collin would always give me another 30 or 45 minutes and with the support of my Secretaries, we always made it.

Since COVID-19 surfaced I ceased writing for the Catholic Standard.

On one occasion I wrote on “Abortion” which he did not agree with. He displayed tolerance in his calm, polite manner said that he will allow my views to be presented, but would state, as he did, at the bottom of my article that the views I expressed were not in accordance with the Catholic Church.

He published the full text of my article.

Colin was gracious and appreciative of the support I gave to the Catholic Standard. Each week there was always a note on my desk which stated that Mr. Smith called to say thanks and send his regards.

My past Secretaries both overseas and in Guyana at present remember him fondly. They were saddened to hear of his death as they reflected on his relationship with my office.

I recall an article I wrote on “The Frustration of young people”, stating

way of showing support for the work of the GCI. We have made several donations in the past to the institution because we recognized that the work they are doing is very important in the awareness of cancer.”

She said that as long as there is a fight GPL will continue to support the cancer institute.

“We will continue to support the cancer institute, and so, today we are handing over $250,000 as our company’s way of giving support to the institution in carrying out their mandate,” Ms. Pindar added.

Collecting the donation on behalf of the GCI was Admin Assistant/ Office Manager Monnet Harry, who said that she is elated to collect the donation especially at the time of COVID-19 when most businesses have suffered.

The result is that regular

donations have dried up.

“It is very important because we are seeing fewer persons coming to do screening because of financial problems. We are also seeing a lot of young women coming with breast cancer lately.”

Ms. Harry added that the donation is timely. It will go towards testing and diagnosing those in need.

GCI provides evaluation, radiation treatment at a subsidized cost, and follow-up services for patients with malignant tumors.

It also reaches out to individuals in remote villages who have no access to education, screening, and diagnosis.

It is said to be a onestop center for diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of all types of cancers prevalent in Guyana.

Region Four has the most vaccinated people …and the most deaths

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This was disclosed by the Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, during his COVID-19 update, yesterday, Thursday.

It was noted that of over 34,000 cases, Region Four has had some 16,000 positive cases, and of the more than 880 deaths in the country, Region Four and positives Covid-19 also has over 400 deaths.

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Friday Oct. 22, 2021

SOME FACTS CANNOT BE DISPUTED

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Many years ago I was a teacher. In fact, that was my first job.

It started way back in 1966. I entered the Government Teachers Training College in 1967 majoring in Chemistry and Physics. From time to time I was required to teach Mathematics when the teachers were not there.

It was an exciting period in my life. It took at least three years to prepare children for the external examinations.

I taught at the Bartica Government Secondary School, the only Grade B Secondary School to prepare and secure passes in Physics and Chemistry at the GCE O’ Levels to this day.

Grade B Schools were expected to prepare children for Integrated

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Sciences.

In those days, children wrote the General Certificate Examinations commonly referred to as GCE. This year there were praises for those children who did remarkably well at the Caribbean Secondary Examinations and CAPE. These examinations have replaced the GCE O’ Levels and A’ Levels.

I saw some Facebook posts, one

by Education Minister Priya Manickchand. I merely posted whether credit should not go to the Coalition. I got no answer.

When the Coalition came to office in 2015 there was a focus on the education system. I am not going to go into the

figures that highlighted how poorly Guyana was performing when compared to the other Caribbean territories.

This year Guyana was the best-performing country.

The results of these recent examinations reflected the four years of preparation under a modified and upgraded school system.

However, there was no mention of this. Instead, there was talk about the Coalition doing nothing during its term in office.

Then I saw the performance by the children at the Grade Six Assessment Examinations.

Way back in the 1990s when Wilfred Success was a teacher at West Ruimveldt Primary School he secured some astounding results.

That school secured six

children in the top ten.

The noise was deafening. Most of the people in the country claimed that Wilfred Success cheated; that he had procured the examination papers in advance and had drilled the children.

The reality is that he continued to produce top-performing children to the point that parents now seek him out. He has opened his private school. This year, again he got astonishing results. Only this time nobody claimed that he had cheated. He got four in the top ten and would be sending nearly two dozen children to Queen’s College.

Indeed, there is the maxim that if the children have not learned, the teachers have not taught. Wilfred Success is a teacher and

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he has employed other teachers.

The public schools did the best they could, bearing in mind that during this pandemic many parents, ordinary people, could not afford computers, did not have access to the internet and therefore could not get their children to attend online classes.

There were 13,000 who wrote the exams.

No more than 1,300 would go on to good secondary schools.

Again, we should understand that many of the parents are not academically inclined so they did not give their children the needed attention and supervision.

But many of these children did well under the circumstances. They deserve congratulations.

And there were some other things that caused raised eyebrows. Former Assistant Commissioner Paul Slowe was out of the country when SOCU laid charges for some incidents dating back to 2019. Heaven knows why those charges have surfaced only now.

However, while Slowe was doing his job with the West Indies Cricket Board the charges were laid but not read to him.

By way of a summons sent to Attorney at Law Nigel Hughes last week, he was informed that he needed to attend court.

And that he did.

When he was in the court four SOCU ranks decided that they should arrest him. If a man is in court to answer charges that have to be read to him and there was no arrest warrant, on what ground can he be arrested?

The truth is that the authorities wanted to have him appear in court with handcuffs and shackles for no other reason than to embarrass him.

He knows his rights and he resisted, causing

the ranks to assault him. There have been criticisms of this episode from lawyers and former magistrates. There has been total silence from the Attorney General.

This episode lends support to the widely held belief that the government is using the police to harass and to embarrass those who dare to comment on its wrongdoings.

It suspended the Police Service Commission as a means of preparing its own list of police promotions. Then the Attorney General files to the court for the move by the Police Service Commission to challenge the government’s refusal to recognize the PSC list of promotions, be struck out because the commission has been suspended by the government. He argues that there is no commission to represent the action.

We’ll see where that argument goes.

The other thing that bothered many people was the fact that a man, Colin Bailey, spent almost six years in jail on a murder charge when the police had no evidence to hold him.

He was freed by the judge who questioned the fact that the matter reached the high court although there was no evidence against Colin Bailey.

And while in jail, Bailey suffered a heart attack and contracted COVID. I have approached the DPP to explain how such a thing could happen.

There were too many checks and balances.

I am awaiting her response.

Region Four has the most vaccinated people … continued from pg2

statistics from the Ministry of Health some 375,640 persons have received the first dose of the vaccine, while some 235,081 have been fully vaccinated.

Of those numbers Region, Four has 175,578 persons that were administered the first dose while 112,133 people are fully vaccinated.

Minister Anthony is insisting that those who are fully vaccinated will have a better chance of fighting COVID-19 than can lead to death.

“Our total number of deaths (up to Thursday) is 887. Most of these persons

were unvaccinated. A few of them were partially vaccinated and there are very, very few who would have been fully vaccinated.

“Those who were fully vaccinated and died were those who had poor prognosis because of several comorbidities. But generally, the majority of persons, who have died so far are those being unvaccinated,” Minister Antony noted.

He said if people are not vaccinated then as time goes by Guyana will continue to see more hospitalizations and

deaths.

“We have to understand one thing, and that is we are going to see a lot more cases among the unvaccinated people.

Unfortunately, apart from them getting infected, among the unvaccinated you will also see more hospitalization and you are going to see more deaths. “ U n f o r t u n a t e l y, this is the situation where if people are not vaccinated we are going to see more people getting hospitalized and dying from COVID-19,” Dr. Anthony added.

Since the introduction of the vaccine there has been some hesitancy among citizens.

The Government is fighting the virus with the rollout of the vaccination and has policies that seek to have more people vaccinated.

But there has been some level of rejection from sections of the public who would have deemed the vaccination drive as being one that is forcing them to have a vaccine. There is that feeling that they have no choice.

Joseph Harmon Visits Ghana

Community, police collaboration Leads to quick arrest of alleged Purse-snatcher

and leading opposition leader of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama where he discussed political relations with Ghana and the National Democratic Congress.

He also made several visits to corporate entities and like-minded individuals in the country.

Mr. Harmon further visited the leader of the Mr. Joseph Harmon visited the former president and leading opposition leader of Ghana, John Muslim community in Dramani Mahama Guyanese Opposition Mountain AOG Church. political relations with the Ghana, the National Chief Imam Sheik Osman Nuru Leader Joseph Harmon The opposition leader West African country.

Sharubutu at his residence has visited Ghana to and former minister of During his visit, Mr. speak at a church forum Guyana also used the Joseph Harmon visited in Accra organized by the Cedar opportunity to re-establish the former president

Fire Chief back on the job

Just a few weeks after fire ravaged the Brickdam Police Station and just a few days after Fire Chief Kamaladeen Edoo was sent on leave, with no indication whether he will return to the post.

This was after he was criticized by President Irfaan Ali for not being able to respond to fire right in the Guyana Fire Service backyard. Today the Fire Chief returned to the job.

This was confirmed by sources close to the fire service, who maintained that Edoo, after packing his belongings just a few

days after the fire, returned in high spirits ready to lead the fire service once again.

This comes after a highlevel meeting with leaders of the Guyana Fire Service on Edoo’s return.

Gregory Wickham, who was acting as the Fire Chief will now revert to his original post of Deputy Fire Chief.

Wickham who was on the leave at the time Mr. Edoo went off, was called in to act.

When contacted, Mr.Edoo said that he was told to go on three weeks’ leave by Minister Robeson Benn. This was

then reduced to two weeks by the Minister.

Asked to comment on his leave, Edoo said, “(It was) not on my call. I was told by the Minister to take three weeks, then he reduced it to two. So, after two weeks, I return today.”

“I never asked for leave, I was forced to go on leave.”

On October 2, fire took out some 80% of the Brickdam Police Station destroying lots of documents, personal belongings, and property of the state.

Since then the fire

service got criticisms from various sections of society, including the head of state.

The morning after the fire, during a visit, President Ali said that hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in the last year to boost the fire service’s response, yet the fire service was unable to respond to a fire in its own “backyard.”

The President noted that the fire service response to the Brickdam fire on Saturday had nothing to do with assets and resources, but with the unpreparedness of the service.

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Quick action by members of the community of Grove, East Bank Demerara, today (Wednesday, October 20, 2021) led to police ranks apprehending a man who tried to snatch a woman’s purse.

The alleged pursesnatcher was cornered in a supermarket at Grove, EBD, by residents who pursued him.

He was subsequently arrested by police ranks.

Police Commander for that Regional Division (4 ‘B’) Senior Superintendent Mahendra Siewnarine immediately lauded the residents for supporting the police in

the fight against crime.

“I applaud the continuous support we as a division have been receiving from members of the Community.

“Their efforts to assist in crime fighting is admirable and courageous and this could only have been achieved through continuous partnership with the police and the public. Such assistance by the public is always welcomed and appreciated and we as a Police Division will continue to strive to ensure we maintain this initiative,” the Police Commander commented.

GUYANA GEARS FOR ELECTRONIC VACCINATION CARDS Guyana will later this week sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Government of India that will see Guyana accessing the COVID-19 Vaccine Intelligence Network (COWIN) software, to produce electronic vaccination cards.

Health Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony, MP, made the disclosure on Wednesday, during the COVID-19 update.

The new electronic which Once we get that COVID “During this week, Understanding, type vaccination cards will curb the forging of we’ll be signing off will allow us to now get software, that’s going to the Memorandum of the COWIN software. be what we will be using. vaccination documents.

So, we will migrate the electronic data that we have into that software, and then we’ll be able to produce the new cards,” he said.

The minister said the manual registers of vaccine distribution and vaccination booklets are currently being converted into digital format.

“We have recruited staff for that purpose. We have designated special areas where we are doing all that, with the equipment and so forth, to make sure that that is happening.

So that is an ongoing

process,” the minister noted.

Dr. Anthony said it is still important for persons to keep their current vaccination cards, as the COVID-19 measures stipulate that persons must produce those cards to transact business at government ministries and agencies.

Persons who operate public transport must also produce their cards if asked by a police officer, or by anyone working on behalf of the Ministry of Health.

and stored onboard then later transported onshore for further treatment and disposal in accordance with applicable Guyana regulations and guidelines, as well as international conventions.

Minister Dharamlall says the weighbridge will go a far way in supporting the efficient management of waste at the facility.

“The weighbridge is quite a significant investment in the Haags Bosch Sanitary Landfill facility. For quite a while our weighbridge

has not been working.

We are very grateful for this intervention,” he said. According to him, significant investments have been made to maintain the facility over the years, which he hopes will be bolstered through similar corporate partnerships.

Measuring 18,3m by 3,3m, the weighbridge steel scale has a capacity of up to 135 metric tonnes per load. The Haags Bosch landfill facility receives about 450 metric tonnes of waste, delivered by some 200 trucks daily.

ExxonMobil Guyana provides weighbridge to Haags Bosch landfill facility

ExxonMobil Guyana has provided a truck weighbridge scale to the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development for use at the Haags Bosch Landfill site aback Eccles.

President of ExxonMobil Guyana, Alistair Routledge, accompanied Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall for a brief visit to the facility recently where the weighbridge has already been installed.

Mr. Routledge said that the weighbridge is

part of the company’s strategy to ensure responsible management and treatment of waste in Guyana.

“We are committed to cradle-to-grave waste management for our operations and the landfill site here at Haags Bosch plays a key role in that,” he outlined.

ExxonMobil Guyana has conducted a “cradle to grave” waste analysis study which was approved by the Environmental Protection Agency in September. The company has since submitted to the EPA a comprehensive

waste management plan for review.

“ExxonMobil Guyana and its prime contractors continue to implement a number of steps to minimize the generation of waste including

recycling and reuse where appropriate,” Routledge said.

“Hazardous and non-hazardous wastes generated by the various offshore operations are appropriately treated

Man remanded for one murder, faces another murder charge

Following the murder of 20-year-old Chris Persaud, of Strathsphey, East Coast Demerara (ECD) last Friday during a robbery, Kapildeo Gangadin was slapped with that murder

charge. He has also been questioned in connection with another murder.

The accused, 24-yearold, Kapildeo Gangadin appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore

in the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court this morning.

With no sign of emotions, Gangadin was not required to plead to the indictable charges.

According to the police, Gangadin on October 8, last, at Strathsphey, stabbed Persaud to his neck while robbing him of his gold chain.

It was further alleged that Gangadin, back in January, stabbed Mukesh Mangra during a robbery.

Gangadin was remanded to prison until January 17, 2022.

On the day of Persaud’s murder, Gangadin pretended to be a customer at Persaud’s Store. He attacked Persaud who reportedly resisted and was stabbed to his neck and about his body.

Police arrested Gangadin for the murder and he later confessed.

Gangadin while being

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under arrest was also questioned about the January 2020 murder of Mangra.

Gangadin according to the police escaped to Suriname after that killing.

Back then it was alleged that Gangadin, along with Vivekanand Ram and Roy Jaglall who were subsequently charged with murdering fisherman Mangra and are presently on remand, robbed the man.

The 24-year-old fisherman of Coldingen, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was found with several stab wounds about his body.

Based on reports a painter was heading

home on his bicycle when he made the gruesome discovery.

Mangra’s lifeless body was lying on the Western side of the said road with two stab wounds to his abdomen; one to the left side and the other to the right side.

The painter immediately contacted the nearest police station and ranks reportedly responded promptly to the scene. They found a blue-handled knife almost 50 feet away from the body At the court today, Persaud’s father, in tears said that Gangadin could have taken what he wanted but not his son’s life.

Faulty electric point causes fire scare at NIS head office

Days after the Brickdam Police Station went up in flames, National Insurance Scheme (NIS) went on high fire alert and called in the Guyana Fire Service after an overloaded loaded switch started to smoke on Monday.

operations started to change the damaged points.

Later when everything was under control, some staff operating in the affected area were told to take the rest of the day off, as power was expected to

The NIS was said to be the third fire emergency call for the day. There was another at the Guyana Post Office.

Speaking to the media after the incident, the Divisional Commander of the Guyana Fire Service (GFS), Hemchandra Persaud, said that with such high fire risk the GFS remains on high alert also.

“We have seen an increase in calls especially from (Monday). We had three calls. We would have responded to the GPO, NIS, and a bridge in Campbellville where there was a rubbish fire lit by someone.

that GFS due to the high risk has also shifted its approach due to high-level risk.

“We are going to raise the level of preparedness; we are at the drawing board right now with senior officers knowing that we had a serious fire at the Brickdam Police Station. Of course, in life, we have to go through the vicissitude of life and there are always changes that we have to adapt to.

“So, we are working as it is right now to look at our resource and to see what necessary we need, especially in this point in time, when we

According to the Guyana Fire Service, just before midday, in the Office of the General Manager, Holly Greaves, an electrical point started to smoke.

The fire service responded with three fire trucks, an ambulance, and the ranks from Guyana Police Force.

On arrival on the scene, firefighters explained that a point in the room was indeed smoking. With the aid of the policemen and women, the building was cleared of staff and others.

With smoke still emanating from the point, prompted the shutting off the power to the building, they quickly tackled the affected area and the situation was quickly brought under control.

The police also indicated that later the NIS Electrical Engineer quickly took over and

out for some time.

The police advised the NIS to check the entire power supply chain to ensure that the problem does not occur again.

The police also with safety in mind, to avoid a recurrence of the Brickdam Police Station fire a fire tender was left on standby.

“That fire was extinguished by the Campbellville units at GPO because it’s a high-rise building, it’s a Government building with lots of occupants.

We would have sent a full response so that nothing got out of control,” Mr. Persaud explained.

Mr. Persaud added

have a very hot weather and of course what is unfolding currently we have to first start thinking ahead and anticipate any eventuality.”

This comes as the President, Mohammed Irfaan Ali blasted the GFS on its preparedness for the Brickdam Police Station fire.

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Guyana to release CSEC, CAPE and NGSA results

by Oct. 15.

The Ministry of Education announced on Saturday, that the Caribbean Examination Council has chosen Guyana as the host country to ‘release’ this year’s CAPE and CSEC results on October 14, 2021. In addition, NGSA is expected to be released on October 15; with raw exam scores coming from Barbados.

The Caribbean Examination Council’s (CXC) Caribbean Secondary Education Certification (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) were written during June -July this year. The examinations were written at a later date this year due to the effects, consequences, and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Caribbean and the world.

The Ministry of Education announced on Saturday, that the Caribbean Examination Council has chosen Guyana as the host country to ‘release’ this year’s CAPE and CSEC results on October 14, 2021. These results will be available to candidates on the CXC’s online portal from October 15, 2021.

The National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) was equally affected by the pandemic and was written on August 4-5 of this year. Since 2016, CXC was contracted by the Government of Guyana to develop, administer and mark this examination/assessment annually.

This year to further

advance the transparency and integrity of the examination/assessment, CXC’s responsibilities were extended and increased to include verification of raw scores. Additionally, to conduct and manage all reviews or appeals after the results are published and further to present the data and analysis of each year’s assessment.

The Ministry of Education has been informed by CXC that the raw scores will be ready and sent from Barbados to Guyana by Tuesday, September 28, 2021, after which the National Data Management Authority (NDMA) will standardize the scores and offer placements according to the scores, and print results’ slips.

In addition, from this year: 1. NGSA candidates will NOT be penalized with their raw scores because they were older than 12 years 6 months at the end of March of the year, the examination was written.

2. The standardized scores per subject will be rounded up to the nearest whole number and the TOTAL score will be given as a decimal number thereby offering candidates more fairness.

The Education Ministry also encourages this year’s NGSA, CSEC and CAPE candidates to return all textbooks and resource materials to their respective schools.

Failure to do so may result in being unable to access results

Temporary home for Brickdam police up and running close to the lockups.

When they arrived the fire seemed coming from the sections close to lockup.

The fire, however,

Following the fire which destroyed 80 percent of the Brickdam Police Station Commander of the Division, Simon McBean, has noted that despite the setback the force is ready to serve the community.

This response comes as ranks of the division, particularly from the Brickdam Police Station, are affected in terms of accommodation after Saturday’s fire took out most of the complex, destroying files, offices, properties of civilians, and the force.

The Brickdam police are relocated to St. Stanislaus

College where they will accommodate the public and by extension ensuring that the laws are upheld.

Commander Mc Bean has insisted that the police are now up and ready to serve the community from all various departments.

“The inquiries department is up and running, traffic service is up and running, the Criminal Investigation Department is up and running. Those are our primary areas of operation.

The patrols are out in full force,” Mr. Mc Bean said.

He added, “All of our services are up and

quickly spread with the aid of wind to other sections of the building.

At the scene, members of the force were seen saving what they could

running. We are trying.

There are some minor works going on to get the ranks comfortable The Commander’s office will be fully operational.”

Commander Mc Bean says while the space may not be adequate it remains workable. The ranks are now getting comfortable in their new spaces.

Just Saturday the Brickdam Police Station went up in flames leaving nothing but two buildings in the compound.

According to the Guyana Fire Service, the fire started just before midday around a section

Another fire threatens a government building

The building that houses the Police and Public Service Commissions has become the fourth government building in four days under fire watch after an overloaded wire called for the presence of the Guyana Fire Service(GFS).

Following the fire, which ravaged the Brickdam Police Station, a fire scare at the Guyana Post Office (GPO) and at the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) in the past few days, the fire service was once more on high alert, today, as the smell of smoke emanated from the PSC building.

According to reports, it was just around midday, when the staff of the Local Government and Regional Development building, who share a compound with the PSC said that info@guyanapostonline.com

they smelled something was burning.

In the midst of taking precautionary measures, the fire service was called in. Also turning up was the Guyana Power and Light (GPL).

On arrival, fighter fighters and the GPL staff later identified the fault and quickly moved to cut power to the building.

After accessing the situation, it was found that an external wire that leads to the PSC building was overheating and required immediate attention.

The worker from the GPL then changed the faulty wire, as an overassessment of the entire electrical grid is expected to be done to ensure that issue does not occur again.

The copper of the wire was seen burning and it was removed from the

building.

This happened after over 80 percent of the Brickdam Police Station was allegedly set by a Lodge resident, Clarence Greene, and small electrical fires at the GPO and NIS. Divisional Commander of the fire service, Hemchandra Persaud, said on the heels of the fire at the NIS building, there is a need for an assessment of the building with the old electrical set, to prevent any fire.

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have. The fire continued to travel, burning several shops nearby and an old gas station on Hadfield Street, aback by the police station.

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