The threat of major fires is an ever-present challenge to Guyana’s urban business community and both the Guyana Fire Service and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry have told Stabroek Business that they are committed to working with business houses and with other agencies responsible for aspects of the administration of buildings in order to reduce that risk.
Fire Chief Marlon Gentle told Stabroek Business in an interview on Tuesday November 30, that while his department had seen “signs of greater responsiveness” on the part of the business community to urgings that more heed be paid to fire-related regulations, there is still evidence of a disturbing level of insensitivity to the risk in sections of the business community. “There is a great deal of evidence