Boeraserie fire…
THE Guyana Fire Service (GFS) has confirmed that the fire, last Wednesday night, which destroyed a dwelling house at Boeraserie, East Bank Essequibo, was deliberately set.

The burnt-out house at Boeraserie, East Bank Essequibo.

Consequently, Police are hunting the suspect, who has since gone into hiding with her child.

Detectives are following up on reports that, because of a telephone quarrel with her husband, the woman lit a kerosene stove and left it under a bed before hurriedly vacating the building.

By the time a fire tender was summoned, the place had been partly gutted and the flooring completely burnt.

The owner, Sheldon Carew was not at his Boeraserie Line Top home but at work in the interior when his house went up in flames.

A next door neighbour, Ionie Humphrey said she was in bed at 23:00 h when she was alerted to the blaze.

She said, within a few minutes, it engulfed the entire building and, together with other neighbours, she watched as the flames burnt out of control.

But the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) sent a tender which was able to contain the spread.

Carew’s reputed wife and their three-year-old son have not been seen since and were reported missing.