Activists challenge ministry over fire that killed two children

The picket line in front of the Child Care and Protection Agency yesterday

Following a fire that claimed the lives of two young brothers at the Drop-In Centre on Hadfield Street on Friday, civil society activists and the children’s parents staged a picket outside of the Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA) office yesterday calling for answers over the deaths and the state of the building.

The fire started early Friday morning and while 29 other children who were at the facility escaped, Joshua George, 3, and Anthony George, 6, perished. At a press conference held later that day by the CCPA and the Ministry of Social Protection, it was announced that the ministry was