THE woman who allegedly set fire to the Stabroek Market Wharf in Georgetown has been arrested and is now in police custody, Mayor Patricia Chase-Green announced on Monday.

Chase-Green had no details to offer except that the woman, of mixed race, was arrested on Monday morning. Police have reportedly been in search of her since the incident.
Attempts by the Guyana Chronicle to garner details of the arrest from the Public Relations Division of the Guyana Police Force, and from several relevant officers, proved futile on Tuesday.

Following an argument with her partner, the irate woman allegedly set alight a stall aback the Stabroek Market on November 20. The blaze razed several other stalls leaving millions in losses in its wake.
Reports are that the fire began sometime between 22:00hrs and midnight that Monday.
The following day, while providing the report of the City Constabulary, Acting Chief Constable Laurel Gittens told the media that she was at home when she received the call about the fire.

“A stall holder was arrested who claimed that himself and his [partner] was engaged in an argument and she wounded him and he was suggesting that she’s the person who lit the stall on fire, but that is just speculations thus far. However, he was held in custody; he was transported to the Georgetown Public Hospital,” Gittens informed.

She continued: “This morning at about 08:15hrs I received another call that another stall was ignited. However, that is under control and from all speculations that fire escalated from some exposed electrical wires, but all this is just speculation until the report from the Fire Service is final.”
The woman allegedly bolted after setting the wharf ablaze.