FIFTY years ago a 34-year-old man was electrocuted in the morning of January 23 while putting up lights on a business house in preparation for the Queen and Prince Phillip’s visit to Guyana. The electrocution of Siegfired Paul, an electrician of D’Urban Street, caused a traffic jam in busy Water Street and disrupted electricity service in a section of Georgetown for almost an hour. Paul was engaged in running an electric wire at Wieting and Richter Limited for the installing of coloured bulbs around 8:30am, when a 30-foot metal scaffold on which he was standing became electrified from an exposed wire. He fell some 20 feet onto the concert pavement as his fellow workmen frantically cut off the current feeding the exposed wire. He was rushed by ambulance to the Georgetown Hospital where he was pronounced dead.