He said, however, there is a strong suspicion that something happened with the electrical equipment in the building.

Meanwhile, education officials in the region are pressing ahead with their work, despite the September 10 blaze at approximately 02:20h that consumed the three-storey edifice.

Regional Information Officer, Mr. Jaidev Dudhnath, said there will be no cancellation of any planned activity to which the department is committed for fulfilling its mandate.

Regional Education Officer, Mrs. Marlyn Jones O’Donoghue added that all programmes to facilitate delivery will be executed as scheduled.

She said, apart from the loss of the physical structure, other losses include documents pertaining to teachers’ biography data, recruitment and payment records and more that are relative to general operations.

Region Three School Welfare Office, a Human Services Ministry department and some staff of the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) were also accommodated in the burnt place.

Twenty-one of the Education Department employees have since been relocated to the Education Resource Centre next door to the gutted premises.

Other arrangements have been made for the six probation officers from the Human Services Ministry to be housed in the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) Office and the remaining displaced personnel will be based in the Regional Administration Office, also at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara.

Minister within the Ministry of Education, Dr Desrey Fox, pledged the Ministry’s support to rebuild the facility and assist in getting the department to boost its capacity to deliver.