Retired Colonel Windee Algernon was yesterday sworn in to conduct the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the operations of the Drop-In Centre, at Hadfield Street, where two young brothers died last week.
Among the tasks of the former Guyana Defence Force officer, as disclosed by Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday, will be to determine whether the family of the children who perished in the blaze will be compensated.
Algernon declined to give a comment following her swearing-in before Magistrate Fabayo Azore at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court Five, saying she
