Speech-impaired Cromarty woman loses home in fire

The destroyed house

– abandoned gov’t building also gutted

A differently abled Corentyne woman is now homeless after a fire gutted her home on Wednesday, while an abandoned government building, also on the Corentyne, was completely destroyed on Thursday.

The woman, Chanderai Rajnauth, 57, of Cromarty village lost her two-storey wooden house in a fire which started on Wednesday around 12.30 am.

A neighbour, Latchmie Ashadat, said she was asleep when the fire started, but was awakened by the