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A FIRST-YEAR professional student nurse is nursing injuries at his place of employment following a freak accident which resulted in his parent’s home collapsing and falling to the ground, as construction workers were attempting to raise it higher. 
The incident occurred at Lot 8 Timmers Dam, Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, Berbice, at around 14:35 hrs on Wednesday afternoon.
Eighteen-year-old Selwyn Semple was partially trapped under the house, as he attempted to flee from the location after hearing a creaking sound. Semple was unable to escape, as he was caught and pinned by the front beam on the collapsing house. He sustained injuries to his head, nose and eye.
His father Clarence Semple, told the Guyana Chronicle that, seconds earlier, his neighbour had alerted him that one of his new born pups was in a nearby pond. The man said he left the contractor, another worker and his son, to go and remove the puppy less than ten feet away, when the house came crashing down.
Contractor Allan Ali said the house just swayed and fell. According to him, all precautions had been taken and he remains baffled at the incident.
With the rains threatening, neighbours who had gathered at the scene opined that the job should not have been undertaken in such inclement weather conditions.
Others with a more superstitious belief said the family should have ‘done a wuk’, before undertaking the task, while others believed that the jack is cursed as three other buildings on which it was used, also fell.
Meanwhile, at the New Amsterdam Hospital, the teen’s mother lamented that it was just three months ago that her six-year-old son, Shurlock Semple, was diagnosed with a brain tumour, and had to be assisted financially by benevolent Guyanese. Shurlock has since returned home after a successful surgery in the twin Island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
‘Now this, Lord is what I do,’ she tearfully lamented.
In the meantime, Selwyn’s batch mates who are in the midst of writing their nursing examination wept openly and eventually joined hands in prayer as they sought divine intervention.
Selwyn Semple had written a part of his examination on Tuesday and had decided to assist his father in having the house lifted and rehabilitated as he was due to continue his examinations on Thursday when the ‘freak’ accident occur.
His condition is listed as stable.
The incident occurred at Lot 8 Timmers Dam, Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, Berbice, at around 14:35 hrs on Wednesday afternoon.Eighteen-year-old Selwyn Semple was partially trapped under the house, as he attempted to flee from the location after hearing a creaking sound. Semple was unable to escape, as he was caught and pinned by the front beam on the collapsing house. He sustained injuries to his head, nose and eye.
His father Clarence Semple, told the Guyana Chronicle that, seconds earlier, his neighbour had alerted him that one of his new born pups was in a nearby pond. The man said he left the contractor, another worker and his son, to go and remove the puppy less than ten feet away, when the house came crashing down.
Contractor Allan Ali said the house just swayed and fell. According to him, all precautions had been taken and he remains baffled at the incident.
With the rains threatening, neighbours who had gathered at the scene opined that the job should not have been undertaken in such inclement weather conditions.
Others with a more superstitious belief said the family should have ‘done a wuk’, before undertaking the task, while others believed that the jack is cursed as three other buildings on which it was used, also fell.
Meanwhile, at the New Amsterdam Hospital, the teen’s mother lamented that it was just three months ago that her six-year-old son, Shurlock Semple, was diagnosed with a brain tumour, and had to be assisted financially by benevolent Guyanese. Shurlock has since returned home after a successful surgery in the twin Island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.‘Now this, Lord is what I do,’ she tearfully lamented.
In the meantime, Selwyn’s batch mates who are in the midst of writing their nursing examination wept openly and eventually joined hands in prayer as they sought divine intervention.
Selwyn Semple had written a part of his examination on Tuesday and had decided to assist his father in having the house lifted and rehabilitated as he was due to continue his examinations on Thursday when the ‘freak’ accident occur.
His condition is listed as stable.
