A FISH vendor of Swamp Section, Rose Hall Town is feared dead after he
allegedly set his house on fire following an argument with his wife.

Up to press time, firemen and detectives from the Guyana Police force
were combing the rubble looking for the man’s remains.

The man, identified as 36-year-old Seanarine Cyril, called “Suresh”, was
involved in a heated argument with his wife around 18:45hrs because she’d lent out his bicycle.

According to his wife, Sarita Sewindra, called “Dimple”, at around 15:45hrs, a neighbour of theirs borrowed the cycle, but when he failed to return it by dusk, she went over to enquire about it, and was told that he’d gotten drunk and misplaced it.

Upon returning home, she and her husband, who was reportedly drinking earlier in the day, got into an argument over the cycle, as he felt she was having an affair with the man.

As things began to get ugly, “Dimple” decided to go by her aunt,taking with her the couple’s three children, aged seven, six and five.
“After meh come home around 6:30,” Dimple said, “he start fuh quarrel and cuss me up nasty; he seh me ah tek man… that’s why me gi’ am de bicycle.
“He tell meh he guh kill me and meh pickney dem, so me leff and gone by meh aunty ‘cross de street.
“By de time meh reach, me get wan call that de house deh pun fire.”

The woman related amidst tears that Seanarie had threatened to burn down
the house on numerous occasions with her and the kids in it. He’d even attempted it on at least three occasions while she and the children were asleep, but she’d somehow managed to wake up in time and put the fire out.

Neighbours say they’d heard the two arguing, but didn’t pay them any mind as that was a common occurrence. They’d even seen him on the veranda at one point, but moments after “Dimple” left, he reportedly locked himself in, and the next thing they knew, they saw smoke coming from inside the house.

Within minutes, they say, the house was engulfed in flames, and by the time the fire tender arrived, it was all over.

With the house gone, “Dimple” said she’s not sure what her next move is going to be; but what she does know, however, is that she’s thankful for life and her
children.
And in spite of his faults, she’s still hoping that, somehow, Seanarine is alive and did not perish in the fire.
“Meh know he frighten death and de police, but meh hope he still alive and nah dead in de fire,” she said.
Police are investigating, and up to press time no one could give details about the whereabouts of Seanarine.