First East Coast fire station set up at Mahaica

The new Mahaica Fire Station

The government yesterday commissioned the first fire station for the East Coast of Demerara at Mahaica, where Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee said that the unveiling on the eve of elections was a mere coincidence.

The unit, which will serve the areas between Bachelor’s Adventure and further east to the Mahaicony Bridge, was built at a cost of some $14M.
At the commissioning ceremony,