Fire at Herstelling…Quick response by the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) and villagers of Herstelling, East Bank Demerara (EBD) saved the home of three families from being burnt to ashes yesterday morning.According to Nadira Roopnarine, of lot 64 Herstelling, she along with her husband and children lived in the western half of the bottom flat of the house while her in-laws reside upstairs.The eastern half of the bottom flat is occupied by tenants.A section of the badly scorched bedroomRoopnarine was not at home when the incident occurred,China Jerseys Online, however,Nike Men Air Max 97 For Sale, she explained that her apartment was not padlocked since it was left open for her son who was expected to return home anytime.She was at her other house located in the Herstelling Housing Scheme,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, when she received information that a fire had started at her bottom flat.Kaieteur News was told by the woman that she and her neighbours (tenants) would have numerous arguments for the past two years since they moved in.Reports are that the fire started in her bedroom and when this newspaper entered the room,Wholesale Jerseys Online, half of it was badly burnt.The top of her wardrobe was said to be where the fire began and a barrel inside of the room was scorched at the bottom. The contents in the barrel were damaged.A number of articles were also badly scorched by the fire. The main switch for the building was also damaged.Roopnarine’s sister-in-law,Cheap Jerseys Supply, “Chano”, who lives upstairs, said that her tenants could not be held accountable for the fire since she was at home when the incident occurred.“I was cooking and Fiona’s daughter came upstairs for something and the girl tell me how she mother sleeping with the baby. She mother sick and was lying down. Just when she walking down the back steps, the mother come running knocking the walls and hollering for fire. So she couldn’t have set the fire,” said Chano.Fiona (the tenant) told Kaieteur News that she was asleep and was awakened by the smell of smoke. She immediately checked her kitchen but did not see anything unusual.Her baby was sound asleep and when she re-entered her bedroom she was the smoke and ran upstairs screaming to alert everyone that a fire had started.‘I panicked and left my baby and start hitting the walls while going upstairs to let them know there was a fire. I then realize my baby was inside so I ran to get my baby and ran with a bucket to throw water. The people’s door was padlocked so I had to break a part of the window to dash in water” recounted Fiona.Fiona explained that she was with a police rank inside of her bedroom stating the sequence of events when she heard Roopnarine’s son tell someone in their apartment that a piece of wood was broken and that Fiona’s family did that to start the fire.The young woman said that while the rank was talking with her, the small piece of wood fell off, due to the fire affecting it, and Roopnarine’s son was not aware of this.Investigations are underway.

The licence to develop the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Plant that was sold to Sithe Global by Makeshwar ‘Fip’ Motilall’s Synergy Holdings Inc, has expired.Head of the Presidential Secretariat,Dr Roger Luncheon.The December 31,Cheap Jerseys, 2013 expiration was confirmed by Head of the Presidential Secretariat,Cheap Jerseys China, Dr Roger Luncheon, who at his post-Cabinet Press briefing on Tuesday last said that the failure to get the project off the ground last year crowned the negatives for the year.Nonetheless, he said the administration is resolute in its pursuit of the project and said that Government is in talks with other parties in that regard.Dr Luncheon told media operatives that in the absence of the required prerequisites, the Sithe Global licence would logically expire. He explained that receiving a licence is not just about placing a signature, but rather, is a culmination of a series of interventions and engagements to the extent that a design for a specific project is in placeAccording to Dr Luncheon, Sithe Global did not pursue an extension of the licence it had held.He pointed out that the nation would not wake up to find that Amaila Falls is no longer in existence,Cheap NFL Jerseys, and as such, the dream of developing a hydropower plant at that location will continue to be a focus of the administration.He said that Amaila Falls is at present the best location for the development of such a facility.“We are continually engaging interests both from our neighbours and further afield in having this reality realised.”He cautioned that at present there is nothing close to the definitiveness of the project that was in place when the political opposition voted down the related legislation last year.“Indeed,Cheap Soccer Jerseys Wholesale, work continues to have an adequate and appropriate design that closely follows the design that ended up being rejected by the opposition’s one-seat majority. We are nowhere close to where we were in 2013 when we went to Parliament seeking approval for moving ahead.”Public Works Minister Robeson Benn, a day before the comments by Dr Luncheon, had also lamented the loss of the project. According to him, “the most critical issue for the development of Guyana is the establishment of cheap power”Public Works Minister, Robeson BennThe Minister said that the reason why the nation will continue to be poor qualitatively over the next decade or more is because the 165M Amaila Project may not be built within that time.Benn posited that should Guyana be able to get cheap power out of Amaila, then monies saved could be plugged into other developmental projects. He said that with Amaila, the nation would be able to forego the importation of fossil fuels and that can be reinvested elsewhere.“The most critical issue for the development of industry and making life more wholesome and more bearable for people is the establishment of cheap hydropower at the Amaila Falls.”Asked whether Government would have done an effective enough job to gain the “buy-in” of the political opposition, Benn opined that with the current opposition, he does not believe that they buy- in to the extent that what they would want would ever be possible on any project“The political opposition may be looking for its own pound of flesh in respect of each and every developmental project.”He referred to critical projects such as the Amaila Access Road and Hydro Plant,China NFL Jerseys, the expansion of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport and all critical development projects which, if unrealised, would see the nation failing to achieve the standard and quality of life that it should have.Asked about the discussions taking place with interested parties to pursue the project, the Minister said, “I can’t say at the moment