A family of seven is now homeless after a fire ripped through their one-bedroom dwelling in Good Hope on the East Coast of Demerara last night, burning it to the ground.
Yamkumeran Bissoon and her six children were sitting on the roadside of the front of their yard waiting for someone to offer them a place to sleep up to press time last night after her eldest son left a candle burning.
Bissoon related that around 7:00 pm she left her home to go and bathe at a neighbour since her water was cut off and she told her son to light a candle. “While I was bathing somebody ring my phone and said fire inside my house that it was burning down” she said, noting that she had to have a boy in the
