— GPL will await court’s decision
CHIEF Executive Officer of the Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL), Bharat Dindyal, yesterday said that the matter in which five-year-old Antoine Lovelle of Craig, East Bank Demerara was electrocuted on December 28, 2011 has since engaged the attention of the court. He added that GPL has internally investigated the matter, but it is presently engaging the court, and, as such, power company officials are unable to make a pronouncement before a legal ruling.
Dindyal described the incident as unfortunate, but said there is nothing the company can do until the matter is settled legally.
On December 28, 2011,  Lovelle was pronounced dead on arrival at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre at around 18:00 hrs, minutes after he had stepped on a severed live electrical wire which was lying in his yard at Lot 334 Craig Public Road.
The toddler’s mother, Nichola Pyle, recounted that she was in her house while Antoine and his older brother were playing in the yard. No one was aware that the wire from the utility pole had been severed and was lying in the grass at the front of the yard.
The woman said she heard her older son shouting, “’Mommy! Mommy! Antoine get blackout.”
She, too, did not see the live wire that was lying in the grass. The woman said that she had informed GPL of the faulty connection of the electrical wiring to her house, but it had not been fixed.