GUYANA Power and Light (GPL) has removed from the fence, electricity lines that fatally shocked nine-year-old Satyanand Balkarran earlier in the week.

But the removal of the lines at Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara has since left the neighbour at the rear without current.
The dead boy’s mother, Debbie Ramash lamented, to the Guyana Chronicle yesterday, that GPL acted after her son lost his life but no official of the utility has contacted her.
The grieving woman recalled that, despite numerous previous complaints that the pole supporting the cables was resting atop their zinc fence, GPL took no action but subsequent to her son’s death, its employees have visited her residence several times.
The Goed Fortuin Primary School pupil was electrocuted on Wednesday night while having a bath near the zinc fence in a section of the yard where he lived.
Balkarran, apparently, came into contact with exposed live wires and fell to the ground upon being electrocuted. He was rushed to the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
GPL said, yesterday, it is still investigating the circumstances.

(Michel Outridge)