Photos by Orlando Charles
A fire ripped through a section of a four-storey building at the corner of Avenue of the Republic and America Street yesterday morning, disrupting several small businesses and causing the destruction of tens of millions of dollars in goods.
Firefighters fought valiantly and contained the fire from spreading, while not much was lost from the ground floor, which housed some eight small businesses including a barbershop, as they managed to remove much of their property.
However, owner of the building Rudat Persaud told Stabroek News that it was only yesterday that he had offloaded containers of goods for storage on the other floors. He estimated his losses in the range of tens of millions plus the damage done to the building.
