Brothers lose homes in Goedverwagting fire

The ravaged apartments after the fire.

Three brothers lost their homes after a fire, suspected to have been deliberately set by one of them, ravaged their three apartments at Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara yesterday.

The fire started around 2:30pm and quickly engulfed the three apartments at Lot 40 Goedverwagting, and scorched some nearby fowl pens. Two of the brothers, Andrew and the suspect, were in the building at the time.

Samuel Critchlow, who was the occupant of the last apartment, said that he was at work when he heard the sounds of sirens racing up the road. “I say is probably them jail man going home early…is then someone tell me ‘look them people running by you,’” he said.

He recounted that as soon as he arrived at their house shortly after,