Mabaruma inferno

Mabaruma inferno Cuban doctors presently housed at guest house

Following a devastating fire at Mabaruma, Region One (BarimaWaini), which gutted the living quarters of three doctors on Monday, the Cuban nationals are currently being housed at a private guest house.

This was according to Regional Health Officer, Dr Stephen Cheefoon on Tuesday who also revealed that an investigation has man was on Tuesday found floating in a canal at Prospect on the East Bank of Demerara (EBD) suspected to have been drowned.

The dead man has been identified as Raybond Johnson, 35, a labourer of Lot 181 Prospect, EBD.

Based on reports received, the body was discovered at about 06:40h by residents, who raised an alarm. The Guyana Police Force was summoned to the area and started their investigations. His body was lying face down and it had no clothes.

A relative of the now dead

On March 5, Mingo declared fraudulent results for District Four, prompting the PPP/C to move to the courts which scrapped those results and ordered that the process be done through the legally prescribed procedure. When the process was resumed, Mingo still proceeded to use concocted numbers, and he eventually made a second fraudulent declaration on March 13.

Mingo had declared that the APNU/AFC won 136,057 votes for District Four, while the PPP/C won 77,231. But the certified recount process clearly shows that for Region Four, the APNU/AFC won 116,941 votes while PPP/C won 80,920.

This meant the PPP/C won the March 2 polls by some 15,416 votes but these results were challenged by the caretaker coalition.

The Court of Appeal in Guyana ruled last week in the Eslyn David matter that “more votes cast” means “more valid votes cast” in the context of the recount order.

The PPP/C has since approached the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) contending that the Appeal Court’s pronouncements have “plunged the law in total confusion and it is now no longer clear how an election of members of the National been launched into the origin and cause of the fire.

However, he noted that the doctors have been provided with the necessary personal items in order to continue executing their duties at the hospital. The fire reportedly started at about 11:15h on Monday. No one was in the building at the time.

In a report to the

Lifeless body of Prospect man found in canal

BODY FOUND

The lifeless body of a

Public Health Ministry, Dr man reportedly told Police that the man was sitting under a coconut tree in the vicinity of the canal but soon after he was seen swimming.

Johnson’s relative said that he did not pay much attention to him and went about his business.

Sometime after he was alerted by residents that Johnson’s lifeless body was seen floating in the canal.

According to the man’s relative, Johnson suffered from epilepsy and it is believed that he might have had a seizure while swimming.

His body was taken to Lyken’s Funeral home awaiting a post-mortem.

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Assembly is to be challenged and how the election of the President can be challenged”.

That matter comes up today before the Trinidadbased regional court for arguments.

However, while the APNU/AFC has publicly supported Lowenfield’s fraudulent report, the party’s Executive, Joseph Harmon, who joined the proceedings as an intervener on behalf of the coalition, in his written submission to the CCJ on Sunday confirmed that the Court of Appeal did not define the term “valid votes”.

In fact, in its ruling, the Court of Appeal had stated it is for the Elections Commission, and not the Chief Elections Officer, to make the determination of a final and credible result.

This meant that Lowenfield took it upon himself to unilaterally announce that he was mandated by his “constitutional” office and went ahead to disenfranchise over 115,000 voters in his recent report to GECOM.

Lowenfield is expected to make an appearance at Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday at 9:00h where the charges will read to him by the sitting magistrate.

Regional Health Officer (RHO), Dr Stephen Cheefoon

Cheefoon noted that there were no casualties, however, all of the doctors’ belongings along with household furniture and appliances were lost in the fire.

“The building was at the time being rented by the Regional Administration, Region One, on an annual contract,” the RHO added.

He, nevertheless, related that the Regional Executive Officer (REO) has requested a thorough investigation into the fire. As such, Fire Chief Marlon Gentle has agreed to send an investigator to probe the circumstances surrounding the fire.

In addition, the police were ordered to secure the site to facilitate the investigation.

In the past few days, almost one fire has been reported every day, leaving numerous persons homeless. On Saturday last, the charred remains of Beverly Miller, 40; Martin Lewis, 46, and their 14-year-old teen son Dawall Ifill were found after a fire suspected to be arson devastated an apartment complex at 6th Street Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara (ECD). A total of 28 persons were also left homeless due to the inferno.

On the same day, a family of three was also left

The doctors’ quarters in flames on Monday

homeless after a fire ravaged their one-storey Lot 197 Section A Field Seven South Sophia, Greater Georgetown wooden home.

Meanwhile, on Friday, millions of dollars in furniture and equipment were destroyed when the ND&S furniture store and facto

ry, located at Gap Road, La Jalousie, West Coast Demerara (WCD), went up in flames.

In addition, an 81-yearold Kingston pensioner was left to make alternative living arrangements after a fire swept through his house last week.