A fire which engulfed and consumed a house in Catherine, Mahaicony on Tuesday, has left an elderly man homeless.
The house, located at Lot 18 Catherine Village, Mahaicony was home to Rajnarine Persaud, a 72-year-old citizen of the United States of America who returned to Guyana some eight days ago.
It was around 4.50 pm that Persaud’s niece, who lives in the lot opposite him, heard her next door neighbour, Jemelia Moore, shouting that her uncle’s home was on fire. She rushed over to the burning building, forced her way in through the stifling heat and smoke and rescued Persaud, who is a diabetic. As she was coming through the door, a bus driver who