A fire yesterday afternoon destroyed a two-bedroom house at Brusche Dam, Buxton, East Coast Demerara, leaving a family of five with losses of an estimated $1 million in household items.
When this newspaper visited the scene yesterday, Oneeta Bacchus, one of the owners said that she was at work when she received a call stating that her house was on fire. The distraught woman said when she arrived the house was already completely destroyed.
Co-owner, Stephen Braithwaite, was also at work and like